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The three traditional provinces of Tibet all have assigned members, as do the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism and the pre-Buddhist Bon faith.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2021
Before the early Buddhists found an aesthetic language of their own, they had to rely on a pre-Buddhist lexicon, no less than early Christianity had to borrow from Greece and Rome.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
With its origins in pre-Buddhist burial mounds or sacred tumuli, it retains a cosmogonic power.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
This looks as if the name might be pre-Buddhist.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
Thus we have evidence of the existence in pre-Buddhist India of rites and beliefs—the latter chiefly of the kind called animistic—disowned for the most part by the Buddhists and only tolerated by the Brahmans.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
