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Tibetan Buddhism

form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet and Bhutan
Organization religious_denomination Q483889
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Summary

Tibetan Buddhism is a religious denomination[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of religious denomination entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,110 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Religion or worldview: Buddhism[3]
  • Instance of: religion or world view[4], Tibetan religion[5]
  • Subclass of: Buddhism[6]
  • Commons category: Tibetan Buddhism[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tibetan Buddhism[8]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: denomination=tibetan[9]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4[13], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15]
  • Topic has template: Template:Tibetan Buddhism sidebar[16], Šablona:Tibetský buddhismus[17]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/tags/tibetan-buddhism[18]
  • Different from: Vajrayana[19], Tantra techniques[20]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]
  • P14541: 2SEhcz[22]
  • P14692: Bundesautobahn 671[23]

Why It Matters

Tibetan Buddhism has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 103 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Bischrob · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sociomap id → SM487155
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  2. 5w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX531525
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX531525"
  3. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Bundesautobahn 671
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  4. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2SEhcz
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002161-tibetsky-buddhismus
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002161-tibetsky-buddhismus, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Vajrayana, Tantra techniques
    Topic has template → Template:Tibetan Buddhism sidebar, Šablona:Tibetský buddhismus
    Subclass of → Buddhism
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 8623, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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