Demons On Top of the World

The peoples of the Bon sect of Tibet struggled hard to keep their own animistic religion intact by resisting the initial spread of Buddhism throughout the empire as the state religion. The solution to the conflict was the incorporation of the Bon religion into Buddhism, and in this synthesis, even so-called evil spirits were incorporated into the Buddhist hierarchy so as to harmonize their aspects with divine will. This documentary explains how this was achieved while presenting a view on Tibetan beliefs not otherwise available to western observers.