Directory 158 of 2,710 traditions
Traditions — Buddhist traditions
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India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Korea and Japan, roughly 500 BCE to the present.
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Buddhism Indian religion -
Zen School of Mahāyāna Buddhist Tradition -
Mahāyāna Branch of Buddhism popular in East Asia and Vietnam that sees the goal of becoming a buddha through the bodhisattva path as being available to all and sees the state of the arhat as incomplete -
Theravāda Major branch of Buddhism following the Pāli Canon, dominant in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand -
Tibetan Buddhism Form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet and Bhutan -
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Vajrayana Indian Buddhist tantric traditions given to Tibet, Bhutan, and East Asia -
Bon Tibetan religion -
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Buddhism in Japan Traditions of Buddhism popular in Japan -
Pure Land Buddhism Branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a Pure Land -
Shambhala Mythical kingdom -
Gelug One of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism - Madhyamaka Mahayana Buddhist school of thought
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Shingon Buddhism School of Buddhism in Japan - Abhidhamma Piṭaka Pāli version of the advanced theology of Buddhism
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Chinese Buddhism Buddhism with Chinese characteristics -
Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism -
Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism -
Sōtō Sect of Zen in Japanese Buddhism -
Rinzai school One of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism -
Sakya Tibetan Buddhist school -
Tiantai School of Chinese Buddhism that emphasizes the One Vehicle of the Lotus Sūtra and the teachings of Zhiyi - Sarvastivada Early school of Buddhism flourishing throughout North India, especially Kashmir and Central Asia, until the 7th century
- Chan Buddhism Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism
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Tendai School of Mahayana Buddhism from Japan -
Nichiren Buddhism Branch of Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese monk Nichiren - Sautrāntika Early Buddhist school
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Huayan school Buddhist school in China -
Karma Kagyu A school of Tibetan Buddhism - Mahāsāṃghika Early school of Buddhism
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Jōdo Shinshū School of Pure Land Buddhism founded by Shinran in japan; most widely practiced branch of Buddhism in Japan - Dharmaguptaka Early school of Buddhism
- Jōdo-shū Branch of Buddhism in Japan
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Jonang School of Tibetan Buddhism -
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Navayana School of Buddhism founded by B. R. Ambedkar focusing on class struggle and social equality - Kadam Renowned Dharma practice & bodhicitta teachings later known as lojong & lamrim
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Nichiren Shōshū Branch of Nichiren Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century - Ōbaku School of Zen in Japanese Buddhism
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East Asian traditions shinbutsu-shūgō Japanese syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism - Caodong school A Chinese Chan Buddhist sect, one of the Five Houses of Chán
- East Asian Yogācāra East Asian Yogācāra in China and Japan
- Mulasarvastivada Early Buddhist school of India
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East Asian traditions Shugendō Japanese religious tradition blending elements of Shinto and Buddhism (Shingon, Tendai) originating in the 7th century, said to be founded by En no Gyōja - Drukpa Lineage Drukpa Kargyud Rinpoches
- Engaged Buddhism Practical application of Buddhist teachings
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haibutsu kishaku Anti-Buddhist movement during the Meiji period in Japan - secular Buddhism Form of Buddhism and secular spirituality
- Buddhist modernism New movements based on reinterpreted Buddhism
- Nichiren Shū Confederation of four of the original Nichiren Buddhist schools
- Pudgalavada Buddhist philosophical view
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Rimé movement Tibetan Buddhist movement - Vaibhāṣika School of Buddhist philosophy
- Risshū School of Buddhism focused on the Vinaya
- Fuke-shū School of Zen Buddhism
- Kāśyapīya Buddhist school in India
- Lokottaravāda Early Buddhist school
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Drikung Kagyu One of the eight "minor" lineages of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism - East Asian Mādhyamaka Buddhist tradition in East Asia which represents the Indian Madhyamaka
- Kegon Buddhist school in Japan
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Linji school A school of Chinese Chán named after Linji Yixuan, one of the Five Houses of Chán - Sarma Kagyu, Sakya & Gelug schools with lineages traced to the 11th century
- Shangpa Kagyu Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism
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Chinese Esoteric Buddhism Traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism - Kesaria Buddhist pilgrimage and archaeological site of ancient Mandala Stupa originally built by Emperor Ashoka in East Champaran District, Bihar, India.
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Newar Buddhism The form of Vajrayana Buddhism practiced by the Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal - Vipassana movement Buddhist meditation movement (1754-)
- Prasaṅgika
- Ji-shū Japanese sect of Pure Land Buddhism
- Tamrashatiya Early school of Buddhism
- Caitika Early Buddhist school
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Cheontae Korean descendant of the Chinese Buddhist school Tiantai - Dagpo Kagyu Branches of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism that trace their lineage back through Gampopa
- Dashabhumika
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Vietnamese Thiền Vietnamese version of Chan Buddhism - Fayan school A Chinese Chan Buddhist sect, one of the Five Houses of Chán
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Fuji Taiseki-ji Kenshōkai Nichiren Buddhist new religious movement - Hossō-shū Japanese school of Yogacara Buddhism
- Hwaeom Korean transmission of the Huayan school
- Ikkō-shū Militant offshoot from Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, though the name has a complex history
- Japanese Zen The Japanese variant of the Buddhist religion
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karmamudrā Vajrayana Buddhist technique of sexual practice - Nanto Rokushū Six Schools of Nara Buddhism
- Sanjiejiao Religious movement based on the teachings of the Chan Buddhist monk Xinxing
- Yuzu Nembutsu School of Pure Land Buddhism
- Dhammakāya Tradition in Thai Buddhism
- Guiyang school A Chinese Chan Buddhist sect, one of the Five Houses of Chán
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Honmon Butsuryū-shū Sect of Nichiren Buddhism -
Kempon Hokke Branch of Nichiren Buddhism - Kwan Um School of Zen International school of Zen Buddhism
- Nichirenism Nationalistic interpretation of the teachings of Nichiren
- Nikaya Buddhism Group of early Buddhist schools
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Ōtani-ha One of dominant sub-sects of Jōdo Shinshū. Head temple is Higashi Honganji in Kyoto - Oxhead school Chan Buddhist tradition
- Sāvakabuddha Enlightened disciple of a Buddha
- Svatantrika Doctrinal distinction within Tibetan Buddhism
- Taklung Kagyu
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Vinh Trang Temple Buddhist temple in Mỹ Tho, Vietnam - East Mountain Teaching School of Buddhism developed in 8th century China
- Honganji-ha One of dominant sub-sects of Jōdo Shinshū. Head temple is Nishi Honganji
- Lamaism Form of Buddhism
- Ngor Tibetan Buddhist tradition
- Plum Village Tradition School of Buddhism
- Shingon Risshu A comparatively small medieval sect of Buddhism in Japan that arose in the Kamakura period as an offshoot of Shingon Buddhism
- Tachikawa-ryū Japanese school of esoteric Buddhism
- Trúc Lâm School of Buddhism in Vietnam
- Yunmen School A Chinese Chan Buddhist sect, one of the Five Houses of Chán
- Five Houses of Chán Five major schools of Chan Buddhism that originated during Tang China
- Heze school School of Chinese Buddhism
- Hokke-shū
- Jimon and Sammon Rival branches of the Tendai sect of Buddhism based on Mount Hiei just outside Kyoto
- Kōyasan Shingon-shū Buddhist sect
- Navakavāda Lay movement within Theravāda Buddhism
- Phagdru Kagyu
- East Asian traditions Ryōbu Shintō Japanese religious syncretism that blends Shintō with Shingon Buddhism
- Seizan Buddhist sect, named for the monk
- Shelun School School of Chinese Buddhism founded by Paramārtha
- Shingon-shu Buzan-ha
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Shingon-shū Chisan-ha Japanese sect of Shingon Buddhism - Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Buddhist organization in Vietnam
- Abhidharma School School of Chinese Buddhism
- Azhaliism School of Chinese Buddhism
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