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Tibetan Buddhism constitutes one of the three branches of Buddhism and has been disseminated to a vast area including Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai Gansu, Yuannan, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang. Owing to historical reasons, almost all the Tibetan and Mongolian people are its followers and a lot of other minority ethnic groups like the Yugu, Menba, Tu and Qing people also believe in Tibetan Buddhism. This chapter focuses on the evolvement, features and major religious rituals of this branch of Buddhism.