Home›Buddhism›Founded ByBrowse ByFounded ByThis page groups denominations by the person credited with founding them. Wikipedia notes that the "Jehovah's Witnesses, founded in the late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell," trace directly to one named founder. Browsing by founder lets a visitor trace a denomination back to the individual who broke away and started it.FactsLearn MoreFounded BySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe vehicles and schools of Buddhism, distinguished by which scriptures are authoritative, by the ideal held out to the practitioner, by the status accorded the Buddha and by the means to awakening - and geographically, each vehicle having taken its own route out of India. 2OriginsWhose Classification This IsWell-attestedThe three-vehicle scheme is a Mahayana classification of Buddhism, not a neutral one: Hinayana, the lesser vehicle, is a polemical term for a set of schools that never used it of themselves and whose surviving representative calls itself Theravada. 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedDenominations 1Learn MoreThe schools of Buddhism This group holds the major traditions and schools of Buddhism, which spread from its Indian origin across Asia and adapted deeply to each culture it entered. Rather than denominations in the Christian sense, these are lineages and vehicles distinguished by canon, practice and philosophical emphasis. The browser will find the three great vehicles (Theravada, the older tradition of Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia; Mahayana, the broad northern tradition with its bodhisattva ideal; and Vajrayana, the tantric path prominent in Tibet), together with their many schools, such as Zen, Pure Land, Tiantai, Nichiren and the Tibetan orders. The entries describe each school's texts, practices and lineage.Founded ByFilter Results5 entriesAlso Known AsAllNational Preceptor Bojo (1)Current StatusAllVenerated today as Shugendo's founding patriarch at Kinpusen-ji, Ominesan-ji and other Shugendo sites, where his image is a common devotional focus. (1)Defining MomentAllPublicly declaring at Seicho-ji in 1253 that the Lotus Sutra alone held the Buddha's true teaching for the age, and that chanting its title was the central practice, the founding act of the teaching lineage that carries his name. (1)FounderAllFounder of the Tiantai school of Chinese Buddhism, systematising its teaching from his base on Mount Tiantai. (1)The society for concentration and wisdom, the retreat community that became Songgwangsa (1)GenderAllMale (4)HistoricityAllHistorically attested (4)Legendary: known from narrative tradition, not the historical record (1)How Its Legacy Is ContestedAllHow much of the finished doctrine is Zhiyi's and how much is Guanding's editorial shaping (1)Institution FoundedAllRissho Kosei Kai, founded March 5, 1938, together with Naganuma Myoko, as a break from Reiyukai. (1)Lifespan or FloruitAll1158-1210 (1)538-597 (1)Traditionally 634 to circa 700 to 707 CE (1)Lifespan or Floruit End YearAll597 (1)707 (1)1210 (1)1282 (1)1999 (1)Lifespan or Floruit Start YearAll538 (1)634 (1)1158 (1)1222 (1)1906 (1)Manner of DeathAllDied of natural causes (1)Notable PublicationAllFahua xuanyi, the profound meaning of the Lotus Sutra (1)Mohe zhiguan, Great Calming and Contemplation, recorded by his disciple Guanding (1)Susimgyeol, secrets on cultivating the mind (1)The Gosho, his collected letters and treatises written across his ministry and especially during his Minobu seclusion, still read and studied by his tradition's later schools. (1)Place of ActivityAllGoryeo Korea, and the mountain community that became Songgwangsa (1)Mount Tiantai in Zhejiang, and the courts of the Chen and Sui dynasties (1)Place of OriginAllHuarong, in Jing prefecture, present day Gong'an county, Hubei (1)Katsuragi, in modern Nara Prefecture, Japan (1)Kominato, Awa Province, Japan. (1)Seohung county, Hwanghae province (1)Suganuma, a farming village in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. (1)Traditions Revering This FigureAllBuddhism (2)BrowseCompareEn no GyojaFounded By1 entryJinulFounded By1 entryNichirenFounded By1 entryNiwano NikkyoFounded By1 entryZhiyiFounded By1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices, 2nd editiontier 1Peter Harvey, Cambridge University Press, 2013View the Source3. The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhismtier 1Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr., Princeton University Press, 2014s.v. HinayanaView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 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.