Lama

:This article is about Tibetan Buddhist teachers. For other uses of the word see Lama (disambiguation)

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Lama (Wylie bla ma) is a title for a Tibetan religious teacher (like the Sanskrit term 'guru') see Tibetan Buddhism and B?n. The title can be used as an honourific title confered on a monk or nun to designate their level of spiritual attainment and authority to teach, or may be part of a title such as Dalai Lama or Panchen Lama applied to a lineage of reincarnate lamas (Tulkus).

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Perhaps due to misunderstandings by early western scholars attempting to understand Tibetan Buddhism, the term lama was historically, and is still sometimes erroneously, applied to Tibetan monks generally. Similarly Tibetan Buddhism was refered to as Lamaism by early western scholars and travelers who did not understand that what they were witnessing was a form of Buddhism, they may also have been unaware of the distinction between Tibetan Buddhism and B?n. The term Lamaism is now considered derogatory.

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