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Pasdecomplot wrote
 * [T]he term "religion" when referring to buddhism needs to be corrected to "philosophy".

Until just over a hundred years ago, "philosophy" in the west was not differentiated from "psychology". Now it is. Are we going to leave "psychology" out too?

Pasdecomplot maintains
 * Religions operate with exterior figures or paternalistic objects which control...

This seems to be his only actual objection to the term "religion" and admittedly, the term is unpopular with atheists in the west these days.

Pasdecomplot also wrote :'Dharma' has many interpretations, mostly 'truth'.

Conze (Buddhist Thought in India, Ann Arbor 1967, p.92f) reckons there are seven in Buddhism. One is


 * As reflected in the moral life, dharma means the moral law, righteousness, virtue, right behaviour, duty and religious practice...

So I don't think we have reason to prune "religion" from our range of terms.Moonsell (talk) 23:50, 27 July 2022 (UTC)


 * ''WP's introduction mentions Buddhahood and one synonym for it: "rainbow body". There is a citation. Please, is anyone able to show how this citation:
 * ''— actually says Buddhahood and rainbow body are synonyms;
 * ''— says why "rainbow body", out of the countless common synonyms, is the preferred one to mention right at the beginning of the article above all others
 * ''— and also what the context is in which the citation uses the term "rainbow body". In particular, what are the topic, section and chapter headings it is under.
 * If possible, can anyone quote what it says?

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Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, or more simply, Tibetan Buddhism, the Buddhism of the Himalayas and surrounding areas derives from that of North India in the 7th to 13th centuries CE. Its overwhelming emphasis is on the classical Sutrayāna teachings of the Vast Vehicle. It widely includes the Buddhist tantras (Vajrayāna), as well as one of the 17 schools of early Buddhism, Sārvāstivāda, then found in present-day Kashmir.

A synthesis of this wealth of Buddhist teachings had already been achieved at the Indian monastic universities and Tibetan Buddhism further received lesser influences from Chinese Chan and Buddhist Turkestan.

It displaced the Tibetan Bon religion. The extent to which it accepted elements of folk culture is unknown, but some may well have already come to Buddhism from India.

Among its prominent exponents is the Dalai Lama.