Home›Buddhism›Originated InBrowse ByOriginated InThis page groups denominations by the place their history traces to. Wikipedia notes that today "there are about 13 million Jews, about 40 per cent living in Israel and 40 per cent in the United States," the two centers where the modern Jewish denominational movements chiefly took shape. Browsing by place of origin lets a visitor see the geographic root of a denomination's own formation.FactsLearn MoreOriginated InSourcesComments (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.Originated InFilter Results4 entriesModern AreaAllChina (1)India, Nepal, Pakistan (1)Japan (1)The Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan areas of Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan in China, with culturally Tibetan populations in Nepal, Bhutan, Ladakh and Sikkim, and an exile community centred on northern India. (1)Principal Religious TraditionsAllBuddhism (1)Chinese Buddhism (1)Confucianism (1)Daoism (1)Hinduism (1)Jainism (1)Japanese Buddhism (1)Shinto (1)Sikhism (1)Tibetan Buddhism in its Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug schools, and Bon, which holds itself to be the older tradition of the plateau. Local deities of place are propitiated alongside both. (1)Sacred and Liturgical LanguagesAllClassical (Literary) Chinese (1)Classical Japanese and Classical Chinese (1)Classical Tibetan, the literary register created for translating Buddhist scripture, which carries the Kangyur and Tengyur canons and the liturgy. Sanskrit stands behind most of that canon as its source language. (1)Sanskrit, Pali, Ardhamagadhi Prakrit, and Punjabi (Gurmukhi) (1)Why Placed HereAllHeld as a region rather than folded into China or the Indian subcontinent, because its canon, its monastic network and its pilgrimage geography form one system that crosses several modern state borders. (1)BrowseCompareChinaOriginated In2 entriesIndian SubcontinentOriginated In1 entryJapanOriginated In7 entriesTibetOriginated In7 entriesSources1. 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.