Its all because of what people believe! Some people have different views in Buddhism that go in different ways like the Chinese Buddhism and Sinhalese Buddhism. They are very ancient and are retold over the world, even before Christianity! So now that there are two ways of becoming a Buddhist people believe differently.
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Yes. All sects or sub-groups of Buddhism follow one of these two major branches.
Simply put yes it is true.
It didn't; the buddha was a Hindu who started Buddhism
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Several hundred years after the Buddha's passing, two groups of monks formed. One group, the Sthiravadins, believed that the entirety of the Buddha's teachings could be found in the Tipitika. Another group, the Mahasanghikas, did not believe this. This was the root of the two main branches of Buddhism which persists to this day.
A circlet with two or more branches for current to flow is a circuit. In this configuration, the current can split and flow through different paths, enabling different components to operate independently within the same circuit.
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There were differences in opinion among different schools a few decades after the death of the Buddha and hence each school proclaimed that their way was right and hence there was a split. However the theravada tradition retains the oldest teachings of the Buddha, however the other tradition believe that the teachings of the Buddha were misinterpreted and few things were added and removed.
they simply split into 3 branches of government
A split into two parts is commonly referred to as a "bifurcation." This term is used in various contexts, including mathematics, biology, and literature, to describe the division of a whole into two distinct sections or pathways. In general usage, it can signify any situation where something is divided into two separate components or branches.