3 results for “Buddhism spread in Asia”
Buddhism spread from northern India to Sri Lanka, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and Tibet. Royal patronage, trade routes, monasteries, travelling monks, translation movements and local adaptation all played major roles in this expansion.
Siddhartha Gautama was a historical religious teacher associated with the Shakya community. Buddhist tradition connects his birth with Lumbini, enlightenment with Bodh Gaya, first sermon with Sarnath and Mahaparinirvana with Kushinagar. His path rejected both sensual indulgence and extreme self-mortification in favour of the Middle Way.
Buddhism developed into many schools and traditions. Hinayana is a later polemical term and is not an exact synonym for Theravada. Theravada preserves the Pali canonical tradition, while Mahayana strongly developed the Bodhisattva ideal, additional sutras and major philosophical traditions.
