Tibetan Buddhism

English

Proper noun

Tibetan Buddhism (uncountable)

1. The body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, Bhutan, Kalmykia, Buryatia and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, and India.

Synonyms

• Vajrayana, Dalai-Lamaism; lamaism (dated, sometimes offensive)

Hypernyms

• Tantra, Tantric Buddhism

Derived terms

• Tibetan Buddhist

Translations

body of Buddhist religious doctrine characteristic of Tibet and surrounding areas

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: ဝဇိရယာန (wa.ji.ra.yana.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藏傳佛教／藏传佛教 (zh) (Zàngchuán Fójiāo), 喇嘛教 (zh) (Lǎmajiào), 密宗 (zh) (mìzōng), 金剛乘／金刚乘 (Jīngāngchéng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: lamaïsme (nl) n
• Finnish: lamalaisuus (fi)
• French: bouddhisme tibétain m, lamaïsme (fr) m
• German: Vajrayana (de) n, Wadschrajana (de) n
• Greek: λαμαϊσμός (el) m (lamaïsmós)
• Hungarian: tibeti buddhizmus
• Ido: lamaismo (io)
• Indonesian: Bajrayana
• Italian: lamaismo (it) m
• Japanese: チベット仏教 (ja) (Chibetto bukkyō)
• Korean: 티베트불교 (tibeteubulgyo) 티벳불교 (tibetbulgyo)
• Mongolian: Очирт хөлгөн (Očirt xölgön)
• Portuguese: budismo tibetano m, lamaísmo m
• Russian: тибе́тский будди́зм m (tibétskij buddízm), ламаи́зм (ru) m (lamaízm)
• Slovak: lamaizmus (sk) m
• Spanish: budismo tibetano m, lamaísmo m
• Thai: วชิรญาณ
• Tibetan: བོད་བརྒྱུད་ནང་བསྟན (bod brgyud nang bstan)
• Vietnamese: Kim cương thừa

Further reading

• Tibetan Buddhism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia