What is the specific difference between Bonism and Buddhism in essence?

There are essential differences between primitive Bonism and primitive Buddhism: Bonism believes in everything and Buddhism believes in Buddhism.

Bonism is the first local religion in Tibet. Buddhism was introduced into China and Tibet at the right time. After a period of struggle with Buddhism, or learning from each other's strengths, Tibetan Buddhism has now taken shape. Tibetan Buddhism is not Hinayana Buddhism, nor Mahayana Buddhism, but a school of its own. Buddhism in China is divided into Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Tibetan Buddhism.

Songzan Gambo widely spread Buddhism in Tibet, replacing Bonism. Bonism later discovered its own shortcomings and began to imitate some contents of Buddhism. Now Tibetans should have followers of Bonism.

Judging from the gods worshipped by Bonism, a considerable number of gods come from Buddhism, and many gods are modeled after the image of Buddhist gods. Even the statue of Shinrao in Danba, as an ancestor and worship god, is modeled after the statue of Sakyamuni in some temples. The "three treasures" of Buddhism, Dharma and Monks in Bonism are also from Buddhism teaching, but the difference is that the Buddha treasure of Bonism is that Danba believes in Rao; Magic weapon refers to the Bonism classics and theories of Danba Sinrao; Monk treasure refers to the disciple of Danba Shinrao.

Living Buddha system is one of the basic characteristics of Tibetan Buddhism. However, some Bonism temples also introduced the living Buddha system into Bonism. For example, Dege Deqin Temple began to set up living buddhas in the early Qing Dynasty, and all the eminent monks in the main temple in the past dynasties were named living buddhas in this temple.

However, there are still some differences between the living Buddha system of Bonism and Tibetan Buddhism, mainly in the way of inheriting the position of living Buddha, and Bonism is rather chaotic. For example, some temples, like Tibetan Buddhism, are passed down through reincarnation; Some living buddhas in temples are passed down by marriage and children. Some Bonism temples do not have a living Buddha system, and the highest host of temples is Kampo.

In Boni religion, Kampo's way of attacking posts is still very confusing, but it can still be seen that it is obviously related to the reincarnation of the living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism. For example, Kampo in some temples is hereditary (Kampo can't get married and is inherited by my nephew), some temples are reincarnated, some temples were attacked by lottery, and some were pre-designated by the previous Kampo.

Extended data:

Primitive Bonism is the primitive religion of Tibetans. Primitive Bonism holds that everything is animism.

The objects of worship include heaven, earth, sun, moon, stars, thunder and lightning, hail, mountains and rivers, earth and rocks, vegetation, animals and other natural objects. Judging from the historical process of human development, this "animism belief" is actually a collective expression of human beings' initial hazy understanding of everything in nature.

For all the phenomena between heaven and earth and nature, early human beings realized that these phenomena were far more powerful than human beings, so they worshipped all things in nature and endowed them with personality, which was a normal manifestation of cognitive enlightenment. After careful study, we will find that primitive benzene advocates the belief basis of all things in nature, which is similar to Taoism.

The religious activities of primitive benzene are often manifested in divination, prayer, incantation, sacrifice and various special ceremonies of the mage, which have the characteristics of shamanism. (It is precisely because the primitive Bonism has a strong primitive color in its form of expression that many people who know a little about "ancient elephants, male buddhas, Buddhism and the Middle Way" have many misunderstandings. Out of curiosity about primitive rituals, they tried to see the legendary "evil witch" and various "mysterious" rituals in today's Benjue Temple in Yongzhong.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Primitive Bonism