“Looks like me” statue of Guru Padmasambhava at the Samye monastery, Tibet. Guru Padmasambhava (5th-6th century BCE to 8th century CE) was an Indian patriarch of the Nyingma and other Tibetan Sects. The...
There were eight principal traditions which ‘transported’ the Buddhist teachings from India to Tibet. Some became the major schools or sects of Tibet that we know today while others were assimilated into many of these...