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■
ANSWER: Tibetan Buddhism [prompt on Buddhism; prompt on Mahayana Buddhism or Vajrayana Buddhism; prompt on Dzogchen or Gelug or Nyingma until “Nyingma” is read by asking “which forms part of what broader tradition?”]
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