The monograph summarizes the results of a synchronous and diachronic study of the worldview and social nature of syncretism of the cult system of Lamaism, its ideological function in the social management system of medieval society. In the history of the political culture of various ethnic groups of Asia, the same methods of ideological sacralization of power are revealed, based on the traditions of ontological and ritual symbols of the spiritual heritage of the clan society. The book is designed for ethnographers, historians, orientalists.