Round 11: Tossup 19
Description acceptable. This historical process was led by a princess named “Ocean of Knowledge” who left an emperor to become one of five spiritual consorts of a leader who is addressed by a 7-line prayer. This process was aided by the victory of gradualists over suddenists at the Samye Debate. Twelve buildings constructed in this process were used as nails driven into the body of a demoness lying beneath the land. As part of this process, hidden “treasure” texts called (*) terma were written by “precious guru” Padmasambhava for future Nyingma school members to find. Indigenous traditions displaced by this 7th to 9th century process influenced the Bon religion. This process began with Songtsen Gampo’s patronage of sutra translations. For 10 points, what process brought a Vajrayana tradition to a region that names a Book of the Dead? ■END■
ANSWER: bringing Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet [or converting Tibet to Vajrayana Buddhism; or founding Tibetan Buddhism; accept synonyms for “bringing” or “converting” or “founding”; accept Böd or the Tibetan Empire in place of “Tibet”; accept Buddha Dharma or the Dharma or Vajrayana before read or the Nyingma school before read in place of “Buddhism”; accept translating or synonyms thereof of sutras or Buddhist scriptures or canon into Tibetan before “translations”; accept hiding or writing treasure texts or terma before “treasure”; prompt on translating sutras or Buddhist scriptures before “sutras” with “into what language?]
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