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an alternative rendering of Mantrayāna, a more literal translation of the term used by schools in Tibetan Buddhism when referring to themselves. [15] Sectarian Buddhism an alternative name for the early Buddhist schools. Southeast Asian Buddhism an alternative name used by some scholars [16] [page needed] for Theravāda. Southern Buddhism
India Early Sangha Early Buddhist schools Mahāyāna Vajrayāna Sri Lanka & Southeast Asia Theravāda Tibetan Buddhism Nyingma Kadam Kagyu Dagpo Sakya Jonang East Asia Early Buddhist schools and Mahāyāna (via the silk road to China, and ocean contact from India to Vietnam) Tangmi Nara (Rokushū) Shingon Chan Thiền, Seon Zen Tiantai / Jìngtǔ Tendai Nichiren Jōdo-shū Central Asia & Tarim ...
The Kagyu schools which survive as independent institutions are mainly the Karma Kagyu, Drikung Kagyu, Drukpa Lineage and the Taklung Kagyu. [2] The Karma Kagyu school is the largest of the sub-schools, and is headed by the Karmapa. Other lineages of Kagyu teachings, such as the Shangpa Kagyu, are preserved in other schools.
Tibetan Buddhism has four major schools, namely Nyingma (8th century), Kagyu (11th century), Sakya (1073), and Gelug (1409). The Jonang is a smaller school that exists, and the Rimé movement (19th century), meaning "no sides", [ 5 ] is a more recent non-sectarian movement that attempts to preserve and understand all the different traditions.
The Chinese Madhyamaka Practice of "p'an-chiao": The Case of Chi-Tsang, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 56 (1), 96–118; Mun, Chanju (2006). The History of Doctrinal Classification in Chinese Buddhism: A Study of the Panjiao Systems. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. ISBN 0761833528
' order of the ancient translations '), is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. [1] The Nyingma school was founded by Padmasambhava [2] as the first translations of Buddhist scriptures from Pali and Sanskrit into Tibetan occurred in the eighth century. [1]
Another alternative name for this tradition is the Yellow Hat school or sect. [4] Doctrinally, the Gelug school promotes a unique form of prasangika Madhyamaka based on the works of Tsongkhapa. According to John Powers, Tsongkhapa's work "contains a comprehensive view of Buddhist philosophy and practice that integrates sutra and tantra ...
According to Samghabhadra, a central tenet of this school was that all sutra is explicit meaning (nitartha), hence their name. [4] The Sarvāstivādins sometimes referred to them as the Dārṣṭāntika school, meaning "those who utilize the method of examples". [3] This latter name may have been a pejorative label. [5]