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This website addresses complex issues related to Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lamas as well as Buddhism in general. The articles included here provide information, detailed scholarship, an*lyses and opinions on these issues. With that, we hope to counter the overblown caricatures or simplistic and often ideologically tainted portrayals of these issues, circulating on the internet or elsewhere in the name of enlightening us. The authors, publishers and copyrights holders gave their ascent to all their articles posted on this website. Many articles were scanned from the original books, OCR processed, carefully checked for errors. All efforts were put into formatting and presenting them in a neat html format. Instead of copying and pasting the articles, think of your karma, and please post links. Thank you very much. Since the vast majority of academic writing that uses Sanskrit is conducted in transliteration, we use another typeface (FF Fago) for those articles because it is capable of handling the characters necessary for transliterated Sanskrit. In the most straightforward sense, Buddhism is the corpus of doctrines and practices based on the teachings of Śākyamuni Buddha, who is believed to have been born in northeastern India and to have lived until the age of eighty, sometime between the sixth and fourth number of different terms, from languages such as Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, or Chinese, which have a far broader range of meanings than The topic of mind occupies a fundamental and complex role in the many forms of Buddhist thought and practice. In Buddhism it is generally as*erted that mind, and not a creator deity, is the root and creator of the entire cycle of conditioned existence known as saṃsāra, liberated, from ignorance … Typically, enlightenment refers to the awakened state that the historical Buddha attained … Although it is common to speak of Buddhism as a single religious tradition, there are in fact many schools and sects of Buddhism, often