ABSTRACT
It may come as a surprise to some to discover that the religion most prevalent in areas inhabited by Mongolians was, and to an extent still is, Buddhism. Other types of Mahāyāna Buddhism, the types practised in Tibet, China and Japan, are easily distinguishable both from each other and from the parent Indian form, while Mongolian Buddhism, even when its existence is acknowledged, is usually treated as identical to its Tibetan antecedent, and hence subsumable under it.
