Religions are highly important for the whole world. Each country has many religions and religions give us a way to live life. There are principles laid by religious books. Most of the times, religions are made by the forefathers of any community. They are very important for all societies. Sometimes religion can take birth at a place or it is also possible that some person made travel to another place and spread the learning of his religion. The same happened in the case of Buddhism and Christianity also. I got to know about 3 major religions on Nepal Tibet Bhutan tour packages. Let us discuss them in a little detail.
Buddhism
People living in Tibet are highly concerned about Buddhism. They call it Tibetan Buddhism. There are some changes made by the Tibetan forefathers. Tibetan Buddhism is seen in the lifestyle of the Tibetan people. It strongly influences them. There are two branches of Buddhism in Tibet: Vajrayana and Mahayana. Mahayana is for the Buddhist practices and philosophies with a long-term significance historically. Vegetarian represents the Buddhist traditions of secret Mantra and is prepared in India. The Secret Mantra is also referred to as Tantra. It originated in medieval India and got spread to many different parts of Asia. There are five main traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. They are a way of virtue, oral lineage, the ancient ones, grey Earth and Jonang.
Christianity
Christian, it is also the religion that is followed by the people of birth. It was in the 17th and 18th centuries when Roman Catholic Capuchins and Jesuits. Christianity is a great way of leading life peacefully. God says never hurt anyone in the world according to Christianity. One should always lead a happy life. If you are unhappy for a minute, you lose sixty seconds of your happiness, is one of the learnings given by Christianity. Jesus Christ lost his life to have a belief in The Almighty. There are many Christian Missionaries is that are active in Tibet. These Missionaries have approval given by the Chinese authorities.
Islam
The culture of Islam is also active in Tibet. The Muslims have been living in different areas of the bed since the beginning of 8 in the 9th century. They have arrived in Tibet from three regions. The three regions are the Central Asian Turkic countries, Kashmir and Ladakh. Persia also has contributed to bringing the influence of Islam in Tibet. It is interesting to know that there is a Chinese community of Muslims. This community traces its origin to an ethnic group of China called Hui.
This Nepal Tibet Bhutan tour gave me a great understanding of the religions followed in Tibet along with the origin or history of coming to Tibet. It told me the details that I did not know from any book. It was pretty interesting to know about the religions in three different directions and many other details associated with them. I will soon plan it again and take my family also as I went with my friends this time.
Outside of Tibet however there was a renewed interest in Tibetan Buddhism in places such as Nepal and Bhutan, while the spread of Tibetan Buddhism in the Western world was accomplished by many of the refugee Tibetan Lamas who escaped Tibet.