How to Use Tibetan Buddhism in a Sentence

Tibetan Buddhism

noun
  • Tibetan Buddhism must be guided to adapt to China’s socialist system, Xi said.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Yet there are several challenges for the party in its attempt to control the future of Tibetan Buddhism – along with many other popular faiths in China.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2025
  • Engraved on a stone outside is a left-facing swastika denoting well-being—the sacred symbol of Bon, as opposed to the right-facing swastikas of Tibetan Buddhism.
    — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024
  • The first full translation was done in 2007 by scholar and translator of Tibetan Buddhism Gyurme Dorje.
    — Jue Liang, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism, talks directly to the camera about inner peace and happiness.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Dorje was four months old when he was identified by Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, a venerated master of Tibetan Buddhism.
    — CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The Sinicization campaign has also meant severe repression of Tibetan Buddhism and Islam , Human Rights Watch said.
    — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The Tibetan diaspora encompasses people from three historical regions and five major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, each of which has its own subcultures, dialects, and histories.
    — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Jalue Dorje's parents took him to meet the Dalai Lama in 2010 when Tibetan Buddhism's spiritual leader visited Wisconsin.
    — CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • Without a civilizational understanding of Tibetans’ relation to the Dalai Lama and his central place in Tibetan Buddhism, Beijing’s only tool is coercion.
    — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Power play in the Himalayas Known as the world’s highest major river, the Yarlung Tsangpo winds its way from a glacier in the Himalayas across the plateau that cradled Tibetan Buddhism, and toward the country’s southernmost edge.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • And perhaps the Nilgiri has something complimentary to say, too, by return of gaze about Bensley’s lovely interiors, which use warm colors and the symbolic palette of Tibetan Buddhism while retaining a quirkiness and insouciance.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2026
  • In Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism, there are more buddhas than just the single historical Buddha (Gautama or Shakyamuni Buddha), and Vairochana is considered to be the supreme and cosmic form of the Buddha, of which the others are emanations.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • He was also named by The New York Times the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism, and TIME chose him as one of the 25 most influential Americans in 1997.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
  • Even if Beijing attempts to install its own Dalai Lama, the global diaspora of Tibetans—and the millions of others who see the Dalai Lama as inspiration and spiritual guide—will continue to look to Dharamsala as the legitimate seat of Tibetan Buddhism and the 15th Dalai Lama.
    — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025

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