Lamaism
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Reason: lecture subjects include such topics as Lamaism, the Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia and Applications of Seismological Techniques to Engineering Problems.
From Time Magazine Archive
Central to Arica's classroom work is a repertoire of exercises similar to the Audicon Plantar and loosely based on Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Muslim Sufism and Tibetan Lamaism.
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His days were spent with monkish tutors, in learning the Tantric texts of Lamaism and the complex religious ceremonials.
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He is the spiritual leader of Lamaism, as the Dalai is the temporal head.
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It is specially characteristic of Lamaism that naturally benevolent deities are represented as raging in furious frenzy.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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