ABSTRACT
Tibet is alone in the field of world religion in having what may fairly be described as two religions in concentric circles on different levels of spiritual awareness. This is not a case of rival religions in the same country, as with Hinduism and Islam in India; nor of rival sects of the same religion as with Catholicism and Protestantism in Northern Ireland; nor even of two sects of the same religion, profoundly different, living happily side by side, as with Shin and Zen in Japan. Nor yet again, though the comparison draws nearer, is this comparable with India, where the Brahmin caste claims to possess esoteric truths unknown to, and to be carefully kept from, the common people. The position in Tibet is different again and, in our belief, unique.
