Christian God and Tibetan Deities

By Fannie B Williams

When I first toured monasteries in Tibet and my friends explained Tibetan Buddhist doctrine, I was overwhelmed by how different Tibetan Buddhism appeared from the Jesus-focused thought and practice with which I was familiar. As a follower of Jesus from the West I wondered, what religious commonalities do I share with Tibetans? Most Tibetans believe themselves to be Buddhists to the point that they see Buddhism as a primary component of their identity. In 1960, Ekvall wrote that when ranking different concepts as important to their identity, Tibetans ranked religion (ཆོས་����གས་གཅིག་) significantly higher than mannerisms (ཁ་����གས་གཅིག་), language (����ད་����གས་གཅིག་), race (མི་རིགས་གཅིག), or land (ས་ལ་གཅིག་). More recently, other authors have similarly stated that

Tibetans believe that to be Tibetan is to be Buddhist (Goldstein, 1998; Kapstein, 1998;Tsomo Karma Lekshe, 2002; Wang, 2012). However, Tibetan religions defy tidy categories

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4037145545
• ISBN13: 9784037145545
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Sultan Publisher
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"