Tibetan Buddhism

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Had it not been for B. Alan Wallace, I would most likely not have looked in the Tibetan direction. Yes, I had heard that Lamaism and Tibetan Buddhism were more or less the same thing, and I had also heard that they were a Johnny-came-late as far as the Buddha was concerned. But that was all.

By the time I did turn my head Tibet-wise, I had familiarized myself with Theravada (“real”…