|
There are three "vehicles" or major branches
of doctrine in
contemporary Buddhism:
- Theravada,
or Southern Buddhism is practiced in Sri Lanka, Burma, Cambodia,
Thailand, etc.
- Mahayana, or Northern Buddhism, which includes all
the schools of China, Japan, Vietnam,
and Korea. Zen is a Mahayana tradition.
- Vajrayana, or Tibetan
Buddhism.
The vehicles are nested, in that all the doctrines and scriptures
of Theravada are accepted in the other two, and Vajrayana
is a development of, and discards nothing from, Mahayana.
There are several active schools within the Tibetan tradition,
some of which practice mahamudra, which is barely distinguishable
from Zen. The Tibetan schools have developed many threads
of Tantric practice and some fairly deep psychology.
Basic
Buddhism | Other
Dharma Centers |
Other Buddhist Resources on the Web
|
