But in fact, like Zen or Pure Land Buddhism, mitsung (including the Nyingma, Gagyuba, Sagya, and Gelukba lineages) is one of the thirteen orthodox sects, sharing the highest principles of transcending life and death and of saving all sentient beings.
但其實，密宗（包括紅教、白教、花教、黃教）和禪宗、淨土宗…… 等一樣，同在正統佛教十三宗之列，也同樣以「了脫生死」、「普度眾生」為最高義理。