The Bonpo's Tradition Tibet's oldest spiritual tradition is B n. According to B npo accounts, eighteen enlightened teachers will appear in this aeon and T npa Shenrab, the founder of the B n religion, is the enlightened teacher of this age. He is said to have been born in the mythical land of Olmo Lung Ring, whose location remains something of a mystery. The land is traditionally described as ...

YetiZone Home Bon-Po Annapurna Culture The minority Bon-Po faith of Tibet represents a continuing stream of religious knowledge and practise dating back in time to before prehistory. Bon-Po has sought throughout its existence to include best practise from other faiths into which it has come into contact. It has absorbed ideas wherever it can. Consequently today it is a mixture of Buddhism, ...

Tibetans commonly draw a distinction between three religious traditions: (1) the divine dharma (Iha chos), or Buddhism; (2) Bon dharma (bon chos); and (3) the dharma of human beings (mi chos), or folk religion. The first category includes doctrines and practices that are thought to be distinctively Buddhist. This classification implicitly assumes that the divine dharma is separate and distinct ...

Photo by Lucas Gilman Samdup Lama Keeping Faith Alive School, monk try to preserve anchient religion By Chris Parker The School of Journalism and Mass Communication has become an ally in a fight to save one of the Earth's oldest religions from extinction. Most Westerners are familiar with Tibetan Buddhists envisioning monks clad in maroon robes atop great mountains but very few realize ...