One of the two principal sects of modern Thai Buddhism
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The Mahā Nikāya (literal translation: "great order") is one of the two principal monastic orders, or fraternities, of modern Thai and Cambodian Buddhism. The term is used to refer to any Theravada monks not within the Dhammayuttika Nikaya, the other principal monastic order. The Maha Nikaya is the largest order of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand and Cambodia, in Thailand taking up over 90% of the Buddhist monks in the country.
The MahāNikāya (literal translation: "great order") is one of the two principal monastic orders, or fraternities, of modern Thai and Cambodian Buddhism...
not within the order being referred to as part of the MahaNikaya order. The Dhammayuttika Nikaya plays a significant political role in Thailand. The order...
derived from Pali. The full official title of the Supreme Patriarch of the MahaNikaya is Samdech Preah Sumedhādhipati (Khmer: សម្តេច ព្រះ សុមេធាធិបតី); sumedhādhipati...
period of unification between 1981 and 1991: the MahaNikaya and the Dhammayuttika Nikaya. The MahaNikaya is by far the larger of the two monastic fraternities...
existed for the Cambodian branch of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya, and another for the MahaNikaya. Because the Dhammayuttika order enjoyed closer ties to...
Gnanasami Maha Thera in order to establish Sri Lanka Ramanna MahaNikaya. He was considered the pioneer of forest dwellers in Sri Lanka Ramanna MahaNikaya. Some...
oversee both of Thailand's Theravada fraternities, the MahaNikaya and the Dhammayuttika Nikaya, as well as the small minority of Mahayana Buddhists in...
890 are of the MahaNikaya and 1,987 are of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya orders of the Theravada school, while 12 are of the Chinese Nikaya and 13 are of the...
monks" movement, a small group of politically active monks (primarily MahaNikaya) voicing public opposition to the current government. The "young monks"...
The term Nikāya Buddhism was coined by Masatoshi Nagatomi as a non-derogatory substitute for Hinayana, meaning the early Buddhist schools. Examples of...
July 1933. On 3 September 2012, he was appointed as the 13th Maha Nayaka of the Ramanna Nikaya succeeding Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thero who died in August...
in Laos. Early Buddhist schools Early Buddhist texts Dhammayuttika NikayaMahaNikaya Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah Galduwa Forest Tradition Sri Lankan...
eight somdet phra ratchakhana: four from the MahāNikāya sect and the other four from the Dhammayuttika Nikāya sect. The titles for somdet phra ratchakhana...
marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Khmer script. Samdech Preah Agga Maha Sangharajadhipati Tep Vong (Khmer: សម្ដេចព្រះអគ្គមហាសង្ឃរាជាធិបតី ទេព វង្ស;...
Mahā Somethea Dhipati Huot Tat (Khmer: ហួត តាត, 15 January 1892 – 1975), Dharma name: Vajirapañño, was the fifth Supreme Patriarch of the MahaNikaya...
one of the temples that emerged from this tradition and is part of the MahāNikāya fraternity. The temple is legally represented by the Dhammakaya Foundation...
post of Amarapura nikaya in 1969, state patronage has been extended to the Mahanayaka theros of the other nikayas as well. Agga Maha Pandita Buddhism in...
two official branches, or Nikayas, of Thai Buddhism are the royally backed Dhammayuttika Nikaya and the larger MahaNikaya. The Mahāvaṃsa, a historical...
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