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Theravada

Religious schools and traditions

Also known as Hinayana Buddhism, Theravada in Pali means ‘Path of the Elders’; it denotes one of the many schools of early Buddhism. Nowadays the term is applied to all Buddhists who follow the Pali canon. Theravada is the dominant tradition of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and South-East Asia (Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia).