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Pottery of the Northern Black Polished Ware culture ( c. 500 –200 BCE) The term "Janapada" literally means the foothold of a people. The fact that Janapada is derived from Jana points to an early stage of land-taking by the Jana people for a settled way of life. This process of settlement on land had completed its final stage prior to the ...
Completed. 1302 [2] Asgiri Maha Viharaya (also called Asgiriya temple, Asgiriya Gedige) is a Buddhist monastery located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is the headquarters of the Asgiriya chapter of Siyam Nikaya, [3] one of the two Buddhist monasteries that holds the custodianship of sacred tooth relic of Buddha kept in Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy.
Maha Nikaya. Le Maha Nikaya - également retranscrit Mahā Nikāya, Mahânikâya ou Mahanikay est un ordre monastique du bouddhisme theravāda présent en Thaïlande et au Cambodge. Il s'agit, avec le Dhammayuttika Nikaya, de l'une des principales fraternités religieuses issues du bouddhisme thaï. La division du sangha thaï en deux ...
v. d. e. O Digha Nikaya, ou "Coleções dos longos discursos" ( digha = "longo") é uma escritura Budista, a primeira divisão do Sutta Pitaka, e é composto por trinta e quatro suttas, agrupados em três vaggas, ou divisões. [ 1]
History. Dhammayuttika Nikaya (Thai: Thammayut) began in 1833 as a reform movement led by Mongkut (later King Rama IV), son of King Rama II of Siam.It remained a reform movement until passage of the Sangha Act of 1902, which formally recognized it as the lesser of Thailand's two Theravada denominations, the other being Maha Nikaya.
The Amarapura–Rāmañña Nikāya ( Sinhala: අමරපුර–රාමඤ්ඤ සාමග්රී මහා සංඝ සභාව, romanized: Amarapura–Rāmañña Sāmagrī Mahā Saṁgha Sabhāva) is the larger of the two Buddhist monastic orders ( Pali: nikāya) in Sri Lanka, the other being the Siyam Nikāya .
Hngettwin Nikaya is a very orthodox order, with a minimalist and austere approach to Buddhist rituals found in Burma, not recognizing any rituals inconsistent with Buddhist doctrine, including nat spirit worship. For instance, members of this order do not worship or venerate the image of Buddha, but rather his memory and teachings.
