Ten Major Sects in China
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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