Monastic Fraternity (Organizations)

Buddhist monastic lineages, called nikayas, each with its own ordination line and rules, such as the Amarapura Nikaya, the Ramanna Nikaya and the Siam Nikaya of Sri Lanka and the Thammayut order of Thailand. An entry belongs here when its article describes a monastic fraternity. The group page lists organisations of the same kind together so that a reader can compare how religious bodies are formed and governed.