Tibetan monks
Buddhist mountain ascetics
Tibetan monks are Buddhist monastics from Tibet or practicing in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
They follow a rigorous discipline of meditation, study, and ritual, often living in remote mountain monasteries.
The image of robed monks creating intricate sand mandalas or debating philosophy has become iconic: Tibetan monks visited our university to demonstrate chanting techniques.
The term sometimes appears loosely for any Buddhist monk from the Himalayan region.
- abbotMonastery's chief cleric
- Dalai LamaTibetan Buddhism's supreme leader
- meditationFocused attention practice
- mantraRepeated focus phrase
- compassionConcern for others' distress
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- monasticsnun, abbot, nuns, abbess, friars
- spiritual practitionersmeditators, practitioners, devotees, contemplatives, monastics
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Those outside a profession
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