Mahayana
the Great Vehicle, the Buddhism of the bodhisattva path and the later sutras, dominant in East Asia and the root of the Tibetan schools.
Under: Buddhist (tradition)
History of Worldviews
- Life of the Buddha; c. 563–483 BCE (traditional); c. 480–400 BCE (scholarly)
- Reign of Ashoka; 268–232 BCE
- Emergence of the Mahayana; 1st century CE
- Nagarjuna; c. 150 CE
- Asanga and Vasubandhu; c. 4th century
- Buddhism introduced to Japan; 552
- Xuanzang's journey to India; 629–645
- Death of Shandao; 681
- Nalanda at its height; c. 8th–9th century
- Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution (China); 845
- Destruction of Nalanda; c. 1193
- Nichiren; 1222–1282
- World Fellowship of Buddhists; 1950
- Thich Nhat Hanh's engaged Buddhism; 1966
- Western Buddhism established; 1970s–1980s