tibetan buddhism

1. 1.

   a Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism

   SynonymsLamaism

   BroaderBuddhism

   Tibet

Questions about tibetan buddhism

What does tibetan buddhism mean?

tibetan buddhism means "a Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism".

What is another word for tibetan buddhism?

Close synonyms include Lamaism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tibetan buddhism a common word?

tibetan buddhism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.