Tibetan Buddhist Non-denominational Movement Characteristics And Impact Studies

In the 7th century, Buddhism spreaded into Tibet from India, which enriched the Tibetan culture and promoted its comprehensive development. Buddhism had great effects upon the Tibetan politics, economy, literature, art, law and so on. However, Buddhism fought against the native Tibetan religions a lot during a long history of integration , especially in the Later Prosperity of Tibetan Buddhism there are a lot of internal conflicts among different sects. After that, the prevailing of religion guardianship, sectarian worship and other conservative ideology ruled the politics and religion of Tibet. Therefore, during the long history of Tibetan Buddhism, there were very few opportunities for different sects to disscuss or innovate. In the end of 18th and begaining of 19th century, the first Tibetan Buddhism revival movement was started in the lead of several senior monks. In Tibetan, it is called which means neutral and no discrimination. This movement started with the reformation of polotics, culture and economy. The purpose of this movement was to collect the quintessence of every sects and abandon the barriers between sects with an open mind in stead of creating a single sect. The originators advocated that one should endeavour to pratice one's own sect's inheritance and furthermore treat other sects'? inheritance with respect. This revival movement of Tibetan Buddhism promoted the internal integration of Tibetan Buddhism, and even Bon was involved in, it also increased Tibetan people's national identity.This article has 3 parts, in the first part, I analysed the background of this movement. In the second part, according to the analysis, I summarized the main characteristics of this movement. In the third part, I analysed this movement's influence on the development among all the different sects of Tibetan Buddhism, the protection of ancient traditional culture and the development of Tibetan Buddhism in the world.