The origin of Tibetan Buddhism and its development

Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist holy doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, counting northern Nepal, Bhutan, and India (Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Sikkim). It is also skillful in Mongolia and parts of [[Russia](Kalmykia, Buryatia, and Tuva) and Northeast China. Tibetan Buddhism composes many definite schools, but is primarily divided into four central traditions: Nyingma, Kagyu, Gelug, and Sakya. All schools are said to compose the teachings of the three vehicles of Buddhism: the Foundational Vehicle, Mahayana, and Vajrayana, though some schools, the Gelug for example, ponder Vajrayana a part of Mahayana.

The first forces attacks by the People's Republic of China on Tibetan troops began at the end of May, 1950, and Generals Zhang Guohua and Tan Guansan reached Lhasa on the 26th October, 1951. Soon after thousands of PLA troops marched through Lhasa. This all led to arm conflicts later in the decade. The abortive rebellion resulted in the deportee of about eighty thousand Tibetans, many of the Buddhist clergy members, to India. Some of them went more to the west, which in favor eventually led to the range of Tibetan Buddhism too many Western countries, where the tradition has gained popularity.

According to a Tibetan legendary tradition, Buddhist scriptures (among them, the Karandavyuha Sutra) and vestiges (among them, the Cintamani) here in southern Tibet during the reign of Lha Thothori Nyantsen, the 28th sovereign of Tibet (fifth century). The tale is miraculous (the objects destroy from the sky on the roof of the queen's palace), but it may have a historical background (the arrival of Buddhist missionaries).

The earliest well-documented stimulus of Buddhism in Tibet dates from the reign of king Songts? Gampo, who died in 650. He married a Chinese Tang Dynasty Buddhist princess, Wencheng, who came to Tibet with an icon of Shakyamuni Buddha.[40] According to a Tibetan legendary tradition, Songts? Gampo also married a Nepalese Buddhist princess, Bhrikuti; but Bhrikuti, who bears the name of a divinity, is not mentioned in reliable sources. Songts? Gampo founded the first Buddhist temples. By the instant half of the 8th century he was already regarded as an embodiment of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.

The successors of Songts? Gampo look to have been excluding enthusiastic about the propagation of Buddhism. Nevertheless in the 8th century, King Trisong Detsen (755-797) established Buddhism as the allowed faith of the royal. He invited Indian Buddhist scholars to his encourage. In his age the prominent tantric mystic Padmasambhava here in Tibet according to the Tibetan tradition. Besides text several important scriptures (some of which he hid for eminent tertons to find), Padmasambhava established the Nyingma educate ("the old teach").

Tibetan Buddhism exerted an intense inspire from the 11th century CE among the peoples of Central Asia, especially in Mongolia and Manchuria. It was adopted as an approved aver religion by the Mongol Yuan family and the Manchu Qing family that ruled China.

Today, Tibetan Buddhism is adhered to generally in the Tibetan Plateau, Nepal, Bhutan, Mongolia, Kalmykia (on the north-west coast of the Caspian), Siberia (central Russia, specifically Buryatia and Chita Oblast), and the Russian Far East (concentrated in Tyva). The Indian regions of Sikkim and Ladakh, both formerly independent kingdoms, also home to significant Tibetan Buddhist populations. In the kindle of the Tibetan diaspora, Tibetan Buddhism has gained adherents in the West and throughout the world; there are estimated to be tens of thousands of practitioners in Europe and the Americas.