Tibetan Culture

The Mongolian style of Tibetan painting maintained the iconography but adapted the details of the background to reflect the grasslands of the Mongolian steppes.

A Tibetan-Mongolian horoscope reveals possible courses one’s life can take due to karma and thus indicates that no course is inevitable. Everything that happens arises dependently on innumerable causes and circumstances and what one does contributes to the course of one’s life.

An overview of the different aims, expectations, cultural, spiritual and psychological factors that affect the relationship between students and their Dharma teachers.

The astro sciences of calendar-making, astronomy, astrology, and mathematics touch many aspects of Tibetan life. These sciences play a significant role in the Tibetan medical tradition.

The cultural context in which Buddhism originated and spread plays an important role in its practice, however, there are indispensable points that characterize Buddhism, regardless of culture.