Ten Major Sects in China

Ten Major Sects in China;

1. Reality or Kosa or Abhidharma Sect Hinayana

2. Satysiddhi or Cheng-se Sect

3. Three Sastra or San-lun Sect Mahayana

4. The Lotus or T’ien-t’ai Sect (it absorbed the Nirvana Sect)

5. The Garland or Hua-yen or Avatamsaka Sect (it absorbed the Dasabhumika and the Samparigarhasastra Sects)

6. Intuitive or Cha’n or Dhyana Sect

7. Discipline or Lu or Vinaya Sect

8. Esoteric or Chen-yien or Mantra Sect

9. Dharmalaksana or Ch’u-en or Fa-siang Sect

10. Pure-land or Sukhavati or Ching-t’u Sect

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