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39. What are the Main Contemporary Divisions in Buddhism: Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna?


 
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1. Title Title of document 39. What are the Main Contemporary Divisions in Buddhism: Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna? - Buddhism in Five Minutes
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Christopher Jones; University of Cambridge; United Kingdom
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religious Studies
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) Buddhism; Buddhist art; Buddhist ethics; Buddhist; Buddha; Nirvana; meditation; Zen;
 
5. Subject Subject classification Buddhism
 
6. Description Abstract It is frequently said that in the world today there are three types of Buddhism: Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. This is certainly true, although it is wrong to think of these as monolithic entities, or as three “schools” or “sects” that differ from each other in simple matters of belief. Each of these labels has a complex history, and refers to families of still very diverse modes of Buddhist thought and practice across different regions and periods of Asian and, more recently, global religious history.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 25-Oct-2021
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/40778
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.40778
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Buddhism in Five Minutes
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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