The Dalai Lama has written "if we look from the point of view of the original stock of teachings that are at its core, we have to say that Bön is a seperate tradition from Buddhism. We cannot consider it one of the Buddhist taditions since then it would need a traceable Buddhist source."Tenzin Gyatsho, Dalai Lama XIV. The Gelug / Kagyü Tradition of Mahamudra. p. 228.