A Mixture of Buddhism

Yuan Tibetan Buddhism

By Deanna Solari

                                             The Mongols liked to keep one religion on top and that was Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism believed that you should achieve enlightenment. Tibetan Buddhism was a mixture of the religion fro Tibet and China. When Prince Koton went to the Yuan dynasty he went to discuss Buddhism with the ruler of the Yuan. He persuaded him that Buddhism was the right religion to have.

The Mongols and Tibetans were alike in many ways. They both had a similar landform and the same types of people so it was easy adopting the new religion. The Mongols usually didn’t like religion ideas from outside of the dynasty because the Yuan rulers didn’t want them to become stronger and believe in something else so they used someone else’s religion.

Eventually Buddhism faded out of the Yuan dynasty, when the dynasty came to an end. They really had no religion at the end of the dynasty. But it is great that they could keep everyone under the same religion to untie everyone in China.