What's the difference between Buddhism spreading to the north and Southern Buddhism?

Differences between northern Buddhism and Southern Buddhism Buddhism;

Buddhism was introduced to the north: it was integrated with the inherent culture of inheritance, mainly Mahayana, and Sanskrit scriptures and their translations were popular.

Southern Buddhism: It has preserved a strong Indian primitive Buddhist color, with Pali-language Buddhist scriptures as the main one.

Southern Buddhism

Religious characteristics:

1, Southern Buddhism, also known as Southern Buddhism, spread to the south. Refers to Buddhism spread in South Asia. Buddhism in South Asia can be divided into four categories: Buddhism in southern Ceylon, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Mixed Buddhism, which originated in Vietnam, combines Confucianism and Taoism. Buddhism believed by Jimi people who once flourished in Cambodia. South China Sea Buddhism spread in Java, Sumatra and Malay Peninsula.

2. Of the above four categories, the third and fourth categories only have today's artistic remains. The second category belongs to the Buddhist system in China. The first category is also called Pali Buddhism, and most of this system is based on Pali scriptures. The so-called Southern Buddhism mainly refers to this department.

3. In the 3rd century BC, Ashoka sent his son, Elder Mahendra, to introduce Indian Buddhism into Ceylon, which was the beginning of Ceylon Buddhism. In the first century BC, Ceylon Buddhism was divided into the Great Temple School and the Fearless Mountain Temple School. In the third century, the Fearless Mountain Temple School was divided into the South Temple School. Among them, the Great Temple Sect is regarded as the orthodoxy of Ceylon Buddhism. In the 5th century, there were great annotators, such as Jueyin and David Hewawitarne.

4. In other countries, Buddhism was introduced into Myanmar after the 4th and 5th centuries, but the adoption of Buddhism in the southern part of the country began in the era of King Ayaluto 1058. After 12 century, Thailand began to accept Buddhism from the upper class. 136 1 year, Sinhalese leaders from Ceylon were welcomed into Thailand to preach the precepts to the king of Thailand. As for Cambodia and Laos, the acceptance of Buddhism in the Upper Seats began after the 14 and 15 th centuries when the Thais recruited.

5. The South Seats are characterized by strict discipline and primitive Buddhist tradition. In Pali literature, besides the complete Confucian classics and legal trilogy, there are a large number of annotated books, re-notes, outline books, history books, grammar books, poetry books and so on.

Expanding information and spreading Buddhism to the north;

1, "Buddhism spread northward" is a kind of Buddhism that spread northward to China through ancient India and then from China to Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other places. "Buddhism spread to the north" means that Buddhism was introduced from northern India to China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam via Central Asia, and Buddhism was introduced to Mongolia from Nepal, China and Tibet.

2. This kind of Buddhism is very different from Buddhism in Ceylon, Myanmar, Thailand, Khmer and other countries where Bali Buddhist scriptures are popular. Because it spread from India to the north,/kloc-European scholars who studied Buddhism in the 9th century called the former northern Buddhism or northern Buddhism, while the latter was Southern Buddhism and southern Buddhism.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Religious Features of Southern Buddhism

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-spreading Buddhism to the north