Home›Empires›Belongs To TraditionBrowse ByBelongs To TraditionThis page groups historical polities by the religious tradition their rulers and institutions belonged to. Wikipedia notes that "the first state-sponsored Christian denomination was the Armenian Apostolic Church, established in 301 CE," a polity whose government and tradition were bound tightly together from that point on. Browsing by belongs-to-tradition lets a visitor find every polity belonging to the same tradition.FactsBelongs To TraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedEmpires & Polities 1Belongs To TraditionFilter Results1 entryAdherents Today MaximumAll324,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll324,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Establishment StatusAllVaries by Province (1)FounderAllSiddhartha Gautama, the Buddha (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2010-01-01 (1)2012-12-18 (1)2020-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll400 BCE (1)Origin Period Start YearAll500 BCE (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (1)TheologyAllNon-theistic: no creator god is central (1)Show ResultsBuddhismBelongs To Tradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 1Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, Second 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.