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What are the two sects of Buddhism
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Amar Kumar 8 years, 2 months ago

The teachings of Buddha teachings were first compiled on the Pali script as the 'Tripitakas'. King Ashoka (250 B.C) was one of its chief believers and propagators.

Buddhism is divided into 2 major sects -

  1. Huinayanas (travellers by a lesser vehicle)
  2. Mahayanas (travellers by a greater vehicle).

Buddhism was bifurcated into two schools of thought by the 1st millennium b.c., when a new cult, known as Mahayana emerged as a reaction against the orthodoxy of the existing sect called the Theravadins or Hinayanas.

The older version of Buddhism (the Hinayanas) believed that the only way to attain nirvana was by leading a monastic life of austerity, abandoning all worldly pleasures.

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