TIBETAN BUDDHISM:
after the failure of BUDDHISM in India during the twelfth century,
Tibetan Monks became the main inheritors of the Indian BUDDHIST TRADITION preserving many
ancient documents and practices which were rejected by THERAVDN Buddhism in the South.
From Tibet, Buddhism spread to China, Korea and Japan where the MAHYNA TRADITION
flourished to produce PURE LAND, ZEN and a host of other Schools. In Tibet itself a
THEOCRATIC government was established and TANTRA flourished. Tibetan Buddhism spread to
the West in the 1950s following the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet.
