Home›Buddhist Festivals›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups holidays by the religion whose adherents keep them. Wikipedia notes that "a religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every holiday from one religious tradition together.FactsTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHolidays & Festivals 1TraditionFilter Results2 entriesBasis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (1)National Census (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Defining Doctrinal PositionAllAwakening by tantric means (Vajrayana) (1)One vehicle: every teaching leads to a single buddhahood (1)Universal liberation by the path of the bodhisattva (1)GovernanceAllAuthority in recognised reincarnate lineages (1)No central authority (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (1)Liturgical LanguageAllClassical Chinese (read in Sino-Japanese where used in Japan) (1)Classical Tibetan (1)Sanskrit (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2010-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (1)2022-01-01 (1)2025-01-01 (1)OrdinationAllA full female ordination lineage continues (1)Celibacy required of the ordained (1)Ordination is into a monastic order, not to a congregation (2)Origin Period End YearAll100 (1)779 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll100 BCE (1)755 (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareMahayanaTradition1 entryTibetan BuddhismTradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.