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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Buddhism was brought to Tibet after the death of the Buddha by the Indian meditation masters Tilopa , Naropa , the Tibetan translator Marpa , the Tibetan poet-saint Milarepa , and Gampopa , a monk and physician who began the Kagyu monastic tradition.
Rinpoche is one of the great living masters of the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and is a teacher of our spiritual guide, Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
It is a most important form of Buddhism, because it has preserved the original Buddhist texts in Sanskrit which were written and edited during the expansion of Mahayana Buddhism and subsequently translated into Chinese and Tibetan.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The lion was closely associated with Buddhism, but the lion was not indigenous to China, so the Chinese and the Tibetan lamas bred their toy dogs to resemble lions.
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