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"Bön" is used to describe three distinct traditions:
• the pre-Buddhist religious practices of Tibetans that are "imperfectly reconstructed essentially different from Buddhism" and were focused on the personage of a divine king;
• a syncretic religion that arose in Tibet during the 10th and 11th centuries, with strong shamanistic and animistic traditions, that is often regarded by scholars as "an unorthodox form of Buddhism;"
• "a vast and amorphous body of popular beliefs" including fortune telling.
However, other scholars do not accept the tradition that separates Bön from Buddhism. This came from Wikipedia. ![]() |