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The followers of Mahayana worshipped Buddha as a god and also believed that there are many Buddhas.
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What religion is Ellen page?
Ellen Page is a Buddhist. The actress even attended a Buddhist school when she was growing up. The school taught meditation and yoga.
Which of these statements best describes the Buddhist school of Theravada?
Theravada is the oldest school of Buddhism.
How are Buddhism and Zen related?
legend tells of the coming of a Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma (da-mo) to China from India....he was schooled in the popular Indian mahayana (greater vehicle), and zen is the school of thought that arose when Buddhism encountered and eventually assimilated the native indigenous faith called 'taoism".
What are the 3 sects of Buddhism?
This is too complex to answer in full here, but please refer to this excellent website which has a detailed discussion of the schools and lineages:http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/schools.htmThe three branches of Buddhism are Mahayana Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism, and Theravada Buddhism.
Do Buddhism have their own language?
Buddhism and Buddhists do not have an official or sacred language. Buddhist documents where originally written in Sanskrit (and ancient Indian language) and later Pali ( a more modern Indian language) but Buddhist texts have been translated to most languages. When Buddhist get together they speak in the language of the country that they are in through translators.
How is Korean Buddhism different than other forms Buddhism?
Korean Buddhism is somewhat concerned with theological doctrines, as are many schools of Mahayana Buddhism. There are several forms of Buddhism practiced in South Korea, but the most common is the Chogye, the Korean Rinzai Zen school of Mahayana Buddhism. There is little truly distinct about Korean Buddhism. There is one element, however. In Mahayana Buddhism, there is the view that the Buddha left a successor, Mahakashyapa, as the second Buddhist patriarch. Zen Buddhism believes that the founder of Ch'an/Zen, Bodhidharma, was the tenth Buddhist patriarch. Most of Zen Buddhism believes that there were only 28 Buddhist patriarchs. The 28th gave his transmission to many successors, thus ending the lineage of Buddhist patriarchs. But there are two schools of Korean Rinzai Zen, Chogye and one other, which both believe that the head of their sect is the current patriarch of all Buddhism. Thus these two schools of Korean Rinzai Zen are sometimes referred to as "Patriarchal Zen".
When was International Buddhist College created?
Mahidol Wittayanusorn School was created on 1990-08-28.
Mahayana Buddhism and Tibetian Buddhism are the same?
Tibetan, or Vajrayana, Buddhism is one of the four major schools of Mahayana Buddhism. The other three are Zen, Nichiren and Pure Land.The term Mahayana has two distinct usages. Firstly, it refers to one of the two branches of Buddhism, the other being the Theravada. Mahayana Buddhism in this sense includes Tibetan Buddhism. Secondly, within Tibetan Buddhism, Mahayana refers to the second of the three levels of teachings, the other two being Hinayana and Vajrayana.In some of the other schools of Mahayana Buddhism, the studying of sutras plays a crucial role in understanding reality. In Tibetan Buddhism, more emphasis is placed on studying the texts of the Prasangika-Madyamaka school (supposedly derived from Nagarjuna's teachings). Also some schools of Tibetan Buddhism constantly engage in philosophical debates on Buddhist principles to cultivate their wisdom. However, it must be noted that both the the Mahayana sutras and Prasangika-Madyamaka schools study the emptiness philosophy of Nagarjuna. So, in essence, they should be the same (differences only arising in the conceptual dimension).The most famous book in Tibetan Buddhism is the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which can be seen not only literally as dealing with the states after death, but also with the consciousness states.Another difference betwen Tibetan Buddhism and other Mahayana schools is that Tibetan Buddhists will often practice tantra, which they believe is higher than the highest practices of the other Mahayana schools.
What are the various Buddhist schools?
nobody knows ++ Buddhism has some central teachings at its very heart, these have been developed in a range of ways,reflecting the individual needs of different people over many centuries. Each of these different approaches can be thought of as a 'school' of Buddhism.
What are the two branches of Buddhism?
Theravada Buddhism focuses on the individual; Mahayana Buddhism focuses on society as a whole.
What is the Buddhist school of Mantrayana?
Mantrayana is a path to enlightenment based on mantras.
What are the four strands of Buddhism?
There are three major strands of Buddhism which are, Mahayana, Theravada, Vajrayana. If you include Ch'an / Zen Buddhism as a separate school then you have four.
