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  2. Timeline of Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. History of Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Buddhism continued to be popular in the Goryeo period (918–1392), in particular Seon Buddhism. [130] However, during the Confucian Yi dynasty of the Joseon period , Buddhism faced a reversal of fortunes beginning with the confiscation of monastery lands, the closing of monasteries and the ban on ordination by aristocrats in the 15th century.

  4. The Buddha - Wikipedia

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    The "long chronology", from Sri Lankese chronicles, states the Buddha was born 298 years before Asoka's coronation and died 218 years before the coronation, thus a lifespan of about 80 years. According to these chronicles, Asoka was crowned in 326 BCE, which gives Buddha's lifespan as 624–544 BCE, and are the accepted dates in Sri Lanka and ...

  5. Early Buddhist schools - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. History of Theravada Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Over time, Anuradhapura Theravada adopted and assimilated various pre-Buddhism elements. [11] The first records of Sri Lankan Buddha images come from the reign of the King Vasabha (65–109 CE), and after the 3rd century CE the historical record shows a growth of the worship of Buddha images as well as of bodhisattvas. [10]

  7. Timeline of South Asian history - Wikipedia

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    OCP • Cemetery H • Early Vedic period • Gandhara grave culture: Megalithic (c. 1400-1100 BCE) 1500-1300 BCE: Indo-Aryan migration: 1300-1100 BCE: Wandering Vedic Aryans: IRON AGE (c. 1100-300 BCE) Culture: Middle Vedic Period: Gandhara grave culture: Black and red ware culture: 1100-800 BCE: Vedic settlements Gandhara: Vedic settlements ...

  8. Buddhism in Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Theravada Buddhism was formed and developed by Ceylon Bhikkhus during a period spanning from the third century B.C. to fifth century A.D. Ceylonese influence, however, did not reach Southeast Asia until the eleventh century A.D. [5] Theravada Buddhism developed in Southern India and then traveled through Sri Lanka, Burma, and into Thailand ...

  9. Southern, Eastern and Northern Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Southern Buddhism, Eastern Buddhism, and Northern Buddhism are geographical terms sometimes used to describe the three main schools of Buddhism (Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna) as it spread from the northeastern region of the Indian subcontinent throughout Central Asia, East Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Maritime Southeast Asia. [1]