藏传佛教的本地化及其早期特点

佛教传入西藏时，其发展并非如后世佛教徒撰写的教法史中所说的那样得到兴盛，而是受多方的影响，吐蕃时期藏地佛教思想来源主要是汉地禅宗与印度佛教。11世纪以后，佛教逐渐本地化，演变为藏传佛教各教派，并且在理论和实践上都具有地方特色，一些教派思想中，仍然有禅宗的遗存，而诸如活佛转世的出现，亦与民众的宗教趣味相关。

Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary [M]. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998.The Localization of Tibetan Buddhism and its Early Features

The development of Buddhism in Tibet when it was introduced into Tibet was not as prosperous as the depiction in the history of Buddhism by late Buddhists. The idea of Buddhism in the reign of Tubo was mainly from the Zen and Buddhism in India. After 11 century, Buddhism was localized and became different schools of Buddhism with local feature on its theory and practice. Some ideas in certain schools of Tibetan Buddhism still traces the idea of Zen while the appearance of reincarnation was pertinent to the favor of peopie.