Scholarship initiated by Snellgrove shows that the organized living tradition of Bön is neither m... more Scholarship initiated by Snellgrove shows that the organized living tradition of Bön is neither merely a copy of Buddhism nor an unbroken continuation of the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet, but a distinct soteriologically oriented spiritual tradition in its own right. 26 The modern Bön tradition, along with Tibetan Buddhism, draws on the same complex matrix consisting of the indigenous foundations of Tibetan culture and worldview intermingled with ideas and imagery from surrounding cultures. Therefore, although the Bön religion has a strong shamanic component, I do not look to it as the indigenous precursor to Buddhism. 27 That being said, however, there are contending voices; and the relationship between Bön, Buddhism, and the indigenous beliefs and practices of Tibet is still far from clear. John Vincent Bellezza's re-robin-bobin
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