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Tibet Overview: Culture
Mythology | Tibetan Buddhism | Culture books
The eightfold path of virtue is as follows:
- Right understanding (i.e. free from superstition and delusion)
- Right thought (i.e. high and worthy of human intelligence)
- Right speech (i.e. kind and truthful)
- Right actions (i.e. peaceful, honest and pure)
- Right livelihood (i.e. not bringing hurt or danger to any living being)
- Right effort (i.e. in self-training and self-control)
- Right mindfulness (i.e. having an active, watchful mind)
- Right concentration (i.e. in deep meditation on the realities of life)
These teachings spread throughout India and its neighbouring countries - including Tibet. The distinguishing feature of Tibetan Buddhism is its assimilation of elements of the indigenous Bon traditions (such as the consultation of 'oracle' priests), Buddhist teachings and the adaptable medium of Tantra (a mystic philosophy developed in ancient India that greatly influenced Hinduism and Buddhism).
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The Jowo Sakyamuni Buddha statue
inside the Jokhang temple - one of
Tibet's holiest relics, Lhasa
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