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Mahayana and Upali Thera

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Difference between Mahayana and Upali Thera

Mahayana vs. Upali Thera

Mahāyāna (Sanskrit for "Great Vehicle") is one of two (or three, if Vajrayana is counted separately) main existing branches of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophies and practice. Upali Thera (อุบาลี) was a Thai Theravada monk and founder of the Siam Nikaya order of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.

Similarities between Mahayana and Upali Thera

Mahayana and Upali Thera have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Buddhism, Gautama Buddha, Sri Lanka, Theravada.

Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Theravada

Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core.

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Mahayana and Upali Thera Comparison

Mahayana has 179 relations, while Upali Thera has 13. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 2.08% = 4 / (179 + 13).

References

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