Bon or
Bön is a
Tibetan religious tradition or sect, being distinct from
Buddhist ones in its particular myths, although many of its teachings, terminology and rituals resemble
Tibetan Buddhism. It arose in the eleventh century and established its scriptures mainly from
termas and visions by
tertöns such as Loden Nyingpo. Though Bon terma contain myths of Bon existing before the introduction of
Buddhism in Tibet, "in truth the 'old religion' was a new religion."