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n. - (Buddhism) an adherent of a Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism

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  • For many centuries, even millennia, much of the area has been protected either by being revered in Taoist and Lamaist religious traditions, or by inaccessibility
  • Khubilai, for his part, favored Tibetan Lamaist Buddhism; 'Phags-pa (1238–80), the man who devised a script for the Mongolian language, was appointed Khubilai's imperial...
  • Later, in its Lamaist incarnation Buddhism entered China through Tibet and the Silk Road through Xinjiang to the Gansu corridor, carried by successive invading...
  • Though Lamaist theology describes her as the spouse of
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