Himalayan Buddhism is a term used to collectively refer to the Buddhist schools of Tibet, Bhutan, and regions of Nepal, and those practiced in the Indian Himalayan regions of Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Darjeeling, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
There are four main, and several smaller, sects of Buddhism which were centred in Tibet but spread to the surrounding Himalayan regions:
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- Ehrhard, Franz-Karl, "Buddhism, Schools of: Himalayan Buddhism", Encyclopedia of Religion (2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, ISBN 0-02-865733-0
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