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mahayana_buddhism
📅 Updated:2025-12-30
🕒 Created:2025-12-30
🆔 ID:89304
Description
Mahayana is the largest branch of Buddhism followed by Theravada_Buddhism. It is a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices developed in ancient India but practiced in East Asia, Mongolia and Tibet nowadays. Mahayana accepts the main scriptures and teachings of early Buddhism but also recognizes various doctrines and texts that are not accepted by Theravada Buddhism as original. These include but are not limited to the Mahayana Sutras and their emphasis on the bodhisattva path.
Mahayana Buddhism inclues but is not limted to Tibetan Buddhism, Zen_Buddhism and Pureland Buddhism
