Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419 CE) founded Yellow Hats, which is the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Je Tsongkhapa during his live times greatly admired kadampa teachings. He was also an enthusiastic promoter of Mahayana principle of compassion which kadam school emphasis was laid on. The yellow Hats sect is also known as The Gelug, Gelug-pa, dGe Lugs Pa, dge-lugs-pa or Dgelugspa. The most prominent figure is Daiai lama.
Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso is the 5th daiai lama, he acted as a political and spiritual leader and is seen as the greatest among the daiai lamas. He was born in yarlung valley and fostered unity among Tibetans. Tibetan sect originated from Mahayana School of Buddhism and it also the most influential form of buddhism in korea, china and japan.
At a time, when other sects were seen as corrupt, the yellow hats came to existence in the 15th century and were regarded as a purer form of Buddhism and by 17th century, yellow hats became the dominant sects.
Yellow hats sect became widely known when Mongols decided to support them in the 16th century. The central plateau was controlled by the yellow hats and this control was maintained until 19th century when British and Chinese attack Tibet.
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Answer:a true scholar of religion is an atheist and uses their atheism as a basic methodological tool.
Explanation:
According to Peter Berger (1969) the study of religion must be approached with methodological atheism.
This implies according to him, the process of bracketing the ultimate status of religious definition of reality.
Other scholars such as Smart (1969) has referred to this as methodological agnostism.
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