Home›Buddhist Monastic Orders and Schools›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups religious orders by the wider religious tradition they belong to. Wikipedia notes that religious orders "exist in a number of the world's religions and their denominations." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every order from one faith together, regardless of when each was founded.FactsTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedReligious Orders 1TraditionFilter Results2 entriesKind of orderAllBuddhist Monastic Orders and Schools (1)Doctrinal PositionAllMahayana Chan/Zen Teaching (1)Theravada Orthodoxy (1)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)ApostolateAllContemplative or Monastic Prayer (2)Teaching and Education (2)Liturgical LanguageAllClassical Tibetan (1)Pali (1)Ordination PracticeAllUpasampada Monastic Ordination (2)Rooted InAllTheravada (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (1)National Census (2)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (2)Documented Accused CountAll3 (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2010-01-01 (2)2012-01-01 (1)2014-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (1)2022-01-01 (1)2025-01-01 (1)2026-08-14 (1)Origin Period End YearAll779 (1)1900 (1)Relation to the StateAllVaries by Province (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareTheravadaTradition1 entryTibetan BuddhismTradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeCategory: Religious OrdersComments (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.