Home›Buddhist Monastic Orders and Schools›Rooted InBrowse ByRooted InThis page groups religious orders by the spiritual lineage they claim to descend from. Wikipedia notes that Sufi orders each keep a chain of transmission and that "almost all orders trace their silsila back to the Islamic prophet Muhammad." Browsing by rooted-in lets a visitor trace an order back to the figure its own claimed lineage begins with.FactsRooted InSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedReligious Orders 1Rooted InFilter Results2 entriesBasis of the Membership FigureAllChurch-Reported Rolls (1)National Census (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Defining Doctrinal PositionAllAwakening as sudden and direct, outside the scriptures (1)Awakening by one's own effort (jiriki) (1)Liberation by the path of the arhat (1)Documented Accused CountAll3 (1)GovernanceAllA head temple over affiliated branch temples (1)Authority through monastic ordination lineage and its seats (2)Autonomous local bodies under a national umbrella association (1)No central authority (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (1)Liturgical LanguageAllClassical Chinese (read in Sino-Japanese where used in Japan) (1)Pali (1)Membership Figure As OfAll1984-01-01 (1)2010-01-01 (1)2012-01-01 (1)2014-01-01 (1)2021-01-01 (1)2026-08-14 (1)OrdinationAllMarried clergy permitted (1)Ordination is into a monastic order, not to a congregation (2)Restricted to men (1)The full female ordination lineage is held lapsed; revival contested (1)Varies between provinces or member bodies (1)Origin Period End YearAll1200 (1)1900 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll250 BCE (1)500 (1)Relation to the StateAllVaries by Province (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareTheravadaRooted In1 entryZenRooted In3 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeComments (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.