Tibetan Buddhism today is the only living Buddhist tradition that summarized, integrated and further cultivated within

itself literaly all Buddhist thought-paths and spiritual praxis that originated in its historical homeland India. It could be said and not ust metaphorically that the lamp of !harma still shines upon" it ust changed its geographical sanctuary. Tibetan people not ust received and transmitted !harma, in the beginning with the help of Indian Buddhist masters, but they afterwards independently and with selfawereness began to compare received teachings of various Indian Buddhist schools and where the later insisted on mutual differences, Tibetans saw only different degrees of subtles. It seems that Tibetan Buddhism post festum reconciled formerly opposed Indian Buddhist camps revealing them, to itself and to us that unspea#able but intensly present and undeniable thread of the $%ath of &wa#ening'