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- Dalai Lama: the governmental head of Tibet, and religious leader of Tibet. While China is occupying Tibet the Dalai Lama is living in India where he is able to practice his religion. He is also called His Holiness.
- Mandala: A mandala is a source of meditation that the Tibetans use to show your soul and trying to get to the center or to show the universe and everything that is in it.
- Tibet: A historical region of central Asia between the Himalaya and Kunlun mountains. A center of Lamaist Buddhism, Tibet first flourished as an independent kingdom in the seventh century. It fell under Mongol influence from the 13th to the 18th century and later came under Chinese control (1720).
- Buddha: Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism. He began preaching after achieving supreme enlightenment at the age of 35.
- Buddhism The teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct, wisdom, and meditation releases one from desire, suffering, and rebirth.
- Cattle: Any of various chiefly domesticated mammals of the genus Bos, including cows, steers, bulls, and oxen
- Conduct: The way a person acts, especially from the standpoint of morality and ethics.
- Diagnosis: The act or process of identifying or determining the nature and cause of a disease or injury through evaluation of patient history, examination, and review of laboratory data.
- Ganesh: The god of wisdom and the remover of obstacles, son of Shiva and Parvati, depicted as a short fat man with an elephant's head.
- Gong: percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a padded drum stick.
- Himalaya Mountains: A mountain system of south-central Asia extending about 2,414 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Xizang (Tibet), Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan. The Himalayas include nine of the world's ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest.
- Irresistible: Impossible to resist: an irresistible impulse to sneeze.
- Lama: Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism
- Lhasa: the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers
- Medicine Buddha: Buddha of Healing, who has the power to see the true cause of any affliction, whether spiritual, physical or psychological, and who does whatever is necessary to alleviate it.
- Meditation: To train, calm, or empty the mind, often by achieving an altered state, as by focusing on a single object. To engage in devotional contemplation, especially prayer.
- Monastery: A community of persons, especially monks, bound by vows to a religious life and often living in partial or complete seclusion.
- Monk: A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order: a Carthusian monk; a Buddhist monk.
- Nirvana: Buddhism. The ineffable ultimate in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion. Hinduism. Emancipation from ignorance and the extinction of all attachment.
- Organs: A differentiated part of an organism, such as an eye, wing, or leaf, that performs a specific function.
- Panchen Lama: One of Tibet's two grand lamas, the other being the Dalai Lama. The lama next in rank to the Dalai Lama
- Patient: One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.
- Physician: A person who practices general medicine as distinct from surgery.
- Reincarnation: the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that persons may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions.
- Thangkas: A Thangka is a painted or embroidered Tibetan banner which was hung in a monastery or a family altar and carried by lamas in ceremonial processions.
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