(University of North Bengal, 2021-03) Lama, Sudash
Study of religion and cultural change has always cherished the historian and
ethnologist. The Tamang have been the subject of study for historians, ethnologists and
philologists for many decades. The cultural peculiarity and ethnographic distinctiveness
has attracted the scholar. The present paper intends to highlight the imbibed religious
transformative character of animism to Buddhism. It also attempted to explore the reasons
for the cultural shift of the tamang from animism to Buddhism.
