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...hists to recommend contributors; he ended up with 7 Japanese professors, 3 Theravada monks and a Tibetan official; at [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.

...y increased the number of immigrants arriving from China, Vietnam, and the Theravada-practicing countries of southeast Asia. ...Zen]], [[Tibetan Buddhism]], and [[Vipassana]], which is an outgrowth of [[Theravada Buddhism]]. Because its membership tends strongly to be among educated, whi

...e with its background in the Indian subcontinent. It is the language of [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]], and in particular of the [[Pali Canon]]. Pali is closely r ...e language in East and West (the latter including Japan for this purpose). Theravada tradition holds that Pali is the root language, the language of reality, th

...eeting at Jalandhara {date not mentioned}. Since the people from Hinayana {Theravada} had not attended there, the sect was declared as the lesser vehicle and th

...was believed to have brought a sapling of the [[Bodhi tree]] to Sri Lanka. Theravada Buddhism has remained the dominant sect in Sri Lanka even during periods of * Gombrich, Richard F. ''Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo'' (1988)

...ouncil Pitaka; this council was held in Rangoon from 1954 to 1956 by all 5 Theravada countries], 40 volumes. As of 1968, the Burmese government did not permit a

...ted with notes by Nārada Thera, John Murray, London, [1954]; a traditional Theravada version ...ut tradition, followed by many scholars, interprets the debates as between Theravada and other schools of Buddhism. However, L. S. Cousins says

:''Major divisions:'' (1) Theravada; (2) Mahayana, which may be subdivided into (2a) Tibetan / Mongolian / Hima

...enge the Hindu hierarchical caste system.<ref> Balkrishna Govind Gokhale, "Theravada Buddhism and Modernization: Anagarika Dhammapala and B. R. Ambedkar." ''Jou

...in what is now northern Cambodia. His wife is credited with introducing [[Theravada Buddhism]], which had been brought to Siam by missionaries from [[Sri Lanka