Brahmajala Sutra can be
- the spurious Sanskrit name of the Fanwang Jing, a text associated with East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. Mahayana ( Sanskrit: mahāyāna, Devanagari: महायान 'Great Vehicle' is one of the two main existing schools of Buddhism and a term for See Brahmajala Sutra (Mahayana). The Brahmajala Sutra (meaning "The Discourse on the Net of Brahma" is the spurious Sanskrit title of a text of the Chinese Mahayana Buddhist canon called Fanwang
- a generic term for a family of related versions of a text (unrelated to the above), of which the most important is the Brahmajala Sutta, the title of an unrelated and distinct text associated with Theravada Buddhism. History Origin of the school The Theravāda school is ultimately derived from the Vibhajjavāda (or 'doctrine of analysis' grouping which was a continuation See Brahmajala Sutta (Theravada). The Brahmajala Sutta is the first of 34 Suttas in the Digha Nikaya (the Long Discourses of the Buddha
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