Tradition Buddhist traditions
Mahāyāna
𑀫𑀳𑀸𑀬𑀸𑀦 pi महायानम् sa ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ། bo
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
- Also called The Great Vehicle, Great Vehicle, Mahayana
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Branches · 7
Many paths. Shared histories.
7 branches recorded under Mahāyāna, 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
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Zen School of Mahāyāna Buddhist Tradition 3 branches of its own -
Pure Land Buddhism Branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a Pure Land 4 branches of its own - Madhyamaka Mahayana Buddhist school of thought
- Chan Buddhism Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism 8 branches of its own
- Ōbaku School of Zen in Japanese Buddhism
- Daruma-shū Early Zen school
- Pure Land worship
Traditions whose own records say they belong to it
1 tradition names Mahāyāna as its own — an affiliation, so kept apart from the tree.
Deities · 1
Gods and divine figures
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 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 god named in a tradition is a figure of its accounts; a picture of one is a work of art, not a likeness.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Places · 4
Places and sites
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 4 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.
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Kek Lok Si
Buddhist temple situated in Air Itam in Penang -
Wanshou Temple
Building in Beijing, China -
Pho Lai Pagoda
Buddhist temple in Huế, Vietnam -
Wat Mangkon Kamalawat
Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand
Connections
How Mahāyāna connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
3 statements on this record
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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