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Representatives from the three major modern Buddhist traditions, at the World Fellowship of Buddhists, 27th General Conference, 2014.. The schools of Buddhism are the various institutional and doctrinal divisions of Buddhism which are the teachings off buddhist texts.
Category: Buddhists by denomination. ... This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. ... Unified Buddhist Church Buddhists (5 P) V.
Categories by Buddhist tradition (7 C) Mahayana (14 C, 17 P) Theravada (12 C, 31 P) Vajrayana (13 C, 65 P) C. Chan schools (3 C, 6 P) Comparative Buddhism (5 P) E.
Buddhism (/ ˈ b ʊ d ɪ z əm / BUUD-ih-zəm, US also / ˈ b uː d-/ BOOD-), [1] [2] [3] also known as Buddha Dharma, is an Indian religion [a] and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE. [7]
Dharmacakra, symbol of the Dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment. Buddhism (Pali and Sanskrit: बौद्ध धर्म Buddha Dharma) is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, "the awakened one".
A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name and tradition, among other activities. The term refers to the various Christian denominations (for example, Eastern Orthodox , Catholic , and the many varieties of Protestantism ).
Buddhism was introduced to the Three Kingdoms of Korea beginning around 372 CE. [129] During the 6th century, many Korean monks traveled to China and India to study Buddhism and various Korean Buddhist schools developed. Buddhism prospered in Korea during the North–South States Period (688–926) when it became a dominant force in society. [126]
The doctrine that worldly truth is unreal, but that Buddhist truth is real (俗妄真實宗) (Lokottaravāda) The doctrine that all things and phenomena are mere names without self-nature (諸法但有宗) (Ekavyāvahārika) Elementary Mahāyāna teaching (大乘初教)