Lama, Sudash2023-04-102023-04-102021-032229-4880https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4852Study 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.enTamangCultureAnimismBuddhismRitualsArticle