Kagyu

Branches · 6

Many paths. Shared histories.

6 branches recorded under Kagyu, one step down, as the records give them.

What this means

Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.

Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Recorded as a branch of

Sarma

Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism

Overview

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At a glance

Kind: Tradition · Institution
Native names: कग्यु Sanskritབཀའ་བརྒྱུད་པ། Tibetan噶舉派 Chinese
Also called: Oral Lineage, Whispered Transmission, Whispered Transmission school
Collection: Buddhist traditions
Evidence: 1 statement on this recordImported 1
Wikidata: Q471187 ↗In 34 Wikipedia languages

What this page is not

Not a list of beliefs everyone in it held, and not a map of adherents.

What this means

A tradition is not a list of beliefs held by everyone in it, and an affiliation recorded on a person is not that person’s belief in every period of their life.

Nothing here is a map of adherents. Where people practised a tradition, and how many, needs a dataset with its own methodology, and this site does not have one — see the atlas for what it does show.

Figures · 10

Begin with a figure

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 10 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Places · 10

Places and sites

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 10 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.