Rimé movement

So, imagine you were at school and your teacher asks everyone to draw a picture. Some kids might draw a dog and others might draw a cat. And that's okay because everyone has their own way of seeing things and being creative.

Well, just like how everyone has their own way of drawing pictures, there are different ways of practicing Buddhism. However, some people think that only their way of practicing is the right way, and they don't respect other people's ways of doing things.

That's where the Rimé movement comes in. Rimé is a word from Tibet that means "non-sectarian" or "unbiased," which simply means that people from different Buddhist traditions can learn from each other and respect each other's practices.

Imagine if all the kids in your class looked at each other's pictures and said, "Hey, that's a really cool way to draw a cat! I'm going to try that in my next picture." That's how the Rimé movement works too. People from different Buddhist traditions share their practices and teachings with each other, and everyone learns from each other.

This movement started in Tibet in the 19th century when there was a lot of fighting between different Buddhist traditions. Some lamas, which are like Buddhist teachers, wanted to bring all the traditions together and stop the fighting.

So, they started the Rimé movement, and it became really popular because people saw how much they could learn from each other. Nowadays, people from all over the world practice Buddhism in a non-sectarian way because of the Rimé movement.