around 2500bc
Theravada, the "Doctrine of the Elders," is the school of Buddhism that draws its scriptural inspiration from the Tipitaka, or Pali canon, which scholars generally agree contains the earliest surviving record of the Buddha's teachings. For many centuries, Theravada has been the predominant religion of continental Southeast Asia (Thailand, Myanmar/Burma, Cambodia, and Laos) and Sri Lanka. Today Theravada Buddhists number well over 100 million worldwide.
The Bush Doctrine meant that the US had the right to engage in a preemptive war; something that had never been done before by the US. It isn't codified into law, so with new management in DC, it is inoperative.
The national religion of Thailand is Theravada Buddhism.
Yes, there is a corollary to the Bodhisattas in the Mahayana tradition in Theravada.
International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University was created in 1998.
The archipelagic doctrine refers to a concept in international law that grants archipelagic states the right to delineate sea lanes and air routes for passage within their archipelagic waters. It is based on the idea that archipelagos should be treated as single unit entities. The doctrine is codified in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
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Theravada and Mahayana