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« Religion and Rituals in Tibet »

Tibetan religions could be divided into four categories: The Pre-Buddhist Religion, Buddhism, Bon, and The Popular Religion. The Pre-Buddhist Religion mainly focuses on the worship of the kings; beside that, devotion of sacred mountain and natural gods are the other important features of this religion. Tibetan Buddhism developed in the wake of Vajrayana Bud­dhism. This school of Buddhism is full ofTantric rites and ideas. Based on these teachings, several Buddhist Orders came to exist; which, each of them have their own temple. The third religion of Tibet which surveyed in this article is Bon. The priests of this religion -Bon pos- claims that Bon is the continuation of the Pre-Buddhist Religion, but there is no historical evidence for this assertion. In fact, Bon is syncretization of Buddhist teachings and the Pre- Buddhist ideas, moreover there are some Iranian elements in this religion. The Popular Religion is a term that only signifies that it is nonmonastic, traditional, and related to the concerns of laypeople. This religion is a mixture of the other Tibetan religions. Every year Tibetans perform espe­cial rituals in order to mitigate, the mechanism of the law of moral causal­ity (karman). They also devote local gods and sacred Buddhist persons.