Tradition
Rimé movement
Overview
The Rimé movement (Tibetan Wylie: ris med; approximate pronunciation "reemay") also written in some English sources as Rime, Ri-me, Rimay) is a movement or tendency in Tibetan Buddhism which promotes non-sectarianism and universalism. Teachers from all branches of Tibetan Buddhism – Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, Gelug, Jonang – and from Bon have been involved in the promoting of Rimé ideals.
According to Sam van Schaik, eclectic and non-sectarian tendencies existed in Tibetan Buddhism before the 19th century, and figures like Tsongkhapa, Longchenpa and Shabkar are widely known to have studied with teachers from different traditions. However, political divisions and religious sectarianism increased during a period of warfare in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This was a time when the Gelug school was the politically dominant religion and Gelug lamas were also the political leaders of Tibet (see Ganden Phodrang).
During the 19th century, having seen how the Gelug institutions pushed the other traditions into the corners of Tibet's cultural life, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892) and Jamgön Kongtrül (1813–1899) compiled together the teachings of the Sakya, Kagyu, and Nyingma, including many near-extinct teachings. Without Khyentse and Kongtrul's collecting and printing of rare works, the suppression of all other Buddhist sects by the Gelugpas would have been much more final. The Rimé movement is responsible for a number of scriptural compilations, such as the Rinchen Terdzod and the Sheja Dzö.
Figures like the 14th Dalai Lama, the 16th Karmapa, and Sakya Trizin are well known promoters of Rimé ideals.
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Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
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Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Rimé movement
Related ideas
- Je Tsongkhapa
- Ecumenism
- Nyingma
- Dzogchen
- Bon
- 5th Dalai Lama
- Sakya
- Gelug
- Kagyu
- 14th Dalai Lama
- Chögyam Trungpa
- Nagarjuna
- Mahamudra
- Sect
- Tibetan Buddhism
- United Kingdom
- Universalism
- Jonang
- Madhyamaka
- Vajrayana
- Chandrakirti
- Longchenpa
- Dalai Lama
- Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.