Question

Which are the major schools of Buddhism?

31 Jan 2018
Answer :
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Major schools of Buddhism are-

  • Theravada, primarily in South Asia and Southeast Asia.
  • Mahāyāna, primarily in East Asia.
  • Vajrayāna, primarily in Tibet, Bhutan, Mongolia and the Russian republic of Kalmykia.

Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core. The Pali canon is the only complete Buddhist canon which survives in a classical Indic Language, Pali, which serves as the sacred language and lingua franca of Theravada Buddhism. Another feature of Theravada is its tendency to be very conservative

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