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Vajrayana Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism; the Diamond Vehicle; Tantric Buddhism
c.7th c. CE – present · Dharmic / Indian · Living · Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia, Ladakh, Buryatia; global diaspora
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.640 CE King Songtsen Gampo; first contact with Buddhism.
- c.775 CE Samye, the first Tibetan monastery, founded under Trisong Detsen with Padmasambhava and Shantarakshita.
- c.792–794 CE The Samye debate: the Indian gradualist position defeats the Chinese Chan sudden-enlightenment position, setting Tibet's direction.
- c.842–978 CE Persecution under Langdarma and a dark period.
- c.1042 CE Atisha arrives; the second diffusion; the Kadam and then Kagyu and Sakya schools form.
- 1040–1123 CE Milarepa, murderer turned yogi, Tibet's most beloved saint.
- 1357–1419 CE Tsongkhapa founds the reformist Gelug school.
- 1578 CE The Mongol ruler Altan Khan confers the title Dalai Lama on Sonam Gyatso, retroactively counted as the third.
- 1642 CE The Fifth Dalai Lama, with Mongol military backing, becomes temporal ruler of Tibet.
- 1950–1959 CE Chinese annexation; the 1959 uprising; the 14th Dalai Lama flees to India.
- 1966–76 CE Cultural Revolution destroys the majority of Tibet's monasteries.
- 1995 CE The Dalai Lama recognises a Panchen Lama; the six-year-old and his family are taken into Chinese custody and have not been publicly seen since. Beijing installs its own.
- 2011 CE The Dalai Lama relinquishes political authority to an elected Tibetan government in exile.
- 2007–present China legislates that reincarnations require state approval — a government asserting jurisdiction over rebirth.
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