One sect in this tradition uses an “A” inside a circle to represent the “rainbow body,” a concept likely borrowed from an indigenous religion which the Rimé movement attempts to harmonize with this tradition. Adherents to this tradition make votive torma sculptures out of dyed butter and use meteoric iron to produce ritual phurba (“POOR-bah”) daggers. The youngest of four schools in this tradition is named for their distinctive yellow headwear, while the oldest, Nyingma (“nuh-YING-muh”), produced this tradition’s “Book of the Dead.” Dharamsala is the location of a theocratic government-in-exile from this religious tradition which formerly ruled from Lhasa’s Potala Palace. For 10 points, what tradition’s 14th Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso? ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.11 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 80.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 79.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.67 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 45.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.80 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 91.57 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 79.13 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 88.70 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sky Li | Toronto A | McGill C | 28 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt B | 38 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 41 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 43 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 45 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 45 | 10 |
| Sayed Muaaz | Alberta | British Columbia B | 47 | -5 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCLA B | 48 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Northwestern A | 56 | -5 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto I | 65 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 68 | 10 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 68 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster C | 69 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto Metropolitan | 69 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Purdue A | 69 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Michigan B | 69 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 69 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 69 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Durham B | 69 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 70 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Minnesota B | 71 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Berkeley D | 72 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McMaster A | 72 | 10 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | Toronto D | 72 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 72 | -5 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Illinois C | 72 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia D | 72 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 72 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 72 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Bristol B | 72 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 73 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Ottawa | 73 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UCO | 73 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Durham A | 73 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Texas A | 74 | -5 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo | Toronto J | 76 | -5 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | McGill D | 76 | -5 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago D | Louisville A | 77 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 80 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 80 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | UIC | 80 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Carleton | 80 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 80 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Alabama B | 80 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 81 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Chicago C | 81 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Auburn B | 81 | -5 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Cambridge B | 81 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Southampton A | 81 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF B | 84 | 10 |
| Christina Popov | Queen's B | Toronto E | 87 | 10 |
| Alden Baker | St. Thomas | Macalester A | 87 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill A | 88 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois B | Notre Dame D | 88 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCLA C | 92 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 92 | -5 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF A | UCF B | 92 | 10 |
| David Thomas | Purdue C | Chicago B | 92 | -5 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 92 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 93 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Wisconsin | 94 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Michigan A | 95 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Notre Dame C | 95 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McMaster B | 97 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Huntsville B | 97 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UF E | 99 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 99 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 102 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern C | 102 | 10 |
| Mia Clark-Webb | Oxford B | Southampton B | 107 | 10 |
| Nihal Anand | UTD A | UTD B | 109 | 10 |
| Scott Sibley | UCI | Claremont Scripps | 111 | 10 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | Claremont Pitzer | 111 | 10 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Guelph B | 111 | 0 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Toronto F | 111 | 0 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Waterloo | 111 | 10 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa | Toronto K | 111 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue C | 111 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue B | 111 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 111 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Arizona State A | 111 | 10 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Iowa | 111 | 0 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Sewanee A | 111 | 10 |