Tibetan Buddhists

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.

Tibetan Buddhism comprises the teachings of the three vehicles of Buddhism: the Foundational Vehicle, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna. The Mahāyāna goal of spiritual development is to achieve the enlightenment of buddhahood in order to most efficiently help all other sentient beings attain this state. The motivation in it is the bodhicitta mind of enlightenment — an altruistic intention to become enlightened for the sake of all sentient beings.Bodhisattvas are revered beings who have conceived the will and vow to dedicate their lives with bodhicitta for the sake of all beings. Widely revered Bodhisattvas in Tibetan Buddhism include Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, Vajrapani, and Tara.

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