denying that a persons worth could be judged by their blood.
laity, and the nature of arhat.
false monks and heretics who had joined the order because of its royal associations.
establish peace between them. However, neither side was willing to give in.
continued their honoring of Buddha as a perfectly enlightened human teacher.
argue whether or not the new sect began in southern or northwestern India.
of Christianity and came together in the Mahayana doctrine of threefold nature.
Zen sect and the Pure Land sect continued to thrive.
from Confucian authorities, Mahayanas influence was seen in Vietnam by 189.
monk, Padmasambhava, who had arrived there in 747 AD to spread Tantric Buddhism.
to make possible the salvation of others who had not reached enlightenment.
ruled as a theocracy from the 17th century until the Chinese takeover in 1950.
the Buddha applied the experimental approach to the questions of ultimate truth.
sects of Buddhism may develop.