A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism.

religious texts that belong to, or are associated with, Buddhism and its traditions.

Of or pertaining to Tibetan Buddhism.

Practitioner of Zen Buddhism meditation.

Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and disciplinary disputes and to revise and correct the contents of the Buddhist canons.

The early Buddhist schools refers to the Indian Buddhist "doctrinal schools" or "schools of thought" (Sanskrit: vāda) which arose out of the early unified Buddhist monastic community (saṅgha) due to various schisms in the history of Indian Buddhism.

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