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... Buddhism , with a strong admixture of more primitive elements . Control lay in the hands of the head of the Mongolian Tibetan Buddhist Church ( who was proclaimed the khan of all Mongolia ) together with various local khans , hundreds ...
... Buddhism , with a strong admixture of more primitive elements . Control lay in the hands of the head of the Mongolian Tibetan Buddhist Church ( who was proclaimed the khan of all Mongolia ) together with various local khans , hundreds ...
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... Buddhism . During this period there was a second flowering of Buddhism among the Mongols . In the reign of Kublai , Buddhism in its Tibetan form had been fashionable at court and among some of the Mon- gol aristocracy , but the people ...
... Buddhism . During this period there was a second flowering of Buddhism among the Mongols . In the reign of Kublai , Buddhism in its Tibetan form had been fashionable at court and among some of the Mon- gol aristocracy , but the people ...
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... Buddhism also finds room for exuberant mythology as well as for the plainer truths of sacred doctrine . Buddhism embraces not only the teachings of the Buddha about the pursuit of the path to Enlightenment and Nirvāṇa but also the ...
... Buddhism also finds room for exuberant mythology as well as for the plainer truths of sacred doctrine . Buddhism embraces not only the teachings of the Buddha about the pursuit of the path to Enlightenment and Nirvāṇa but also the ...
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