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Long before Buddhism established its monasteries, scholastic curricula, and imperial patronage in Tibet, there already existed a complete vision of reality—not provisional, not primitive, and not awaiting refinement. This vision was Bön. To understand Bön as merely “pre-Buddhist” is already to misunderstand it, for Bön does not define itself by what came later. It stands, instead, as an independent articulation of primordial wisdom, rooted in recognition rather than belief. read more