1. Spread of Buddha & Buddhist Sects

3. Ashoka Maurya 273-232 Renounced violence after battle for Kalinga
Built thousands of stupas and monasteries
Declared the state religion
Sent monks to teach

4. Silk Road In the 2nd century BC, caravans travel 4,000 miles route
Links Asia with the West.
In both directions, various political, social, religious, and artistic ideas flowed.
Buddhist monks helped spread the religion across Asia

5. The Silk Road

6. Theravada Buddhism Largest schools of Buddhism
Means "teaching of the elders." 
SE Asia (Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos)
Original teachings of Buddha.  
Each person must find their way
See Buddha as man, do not worship or pray to him  
Strong monastic tradition

8. Mahayana Buddhism 2nd largest school of Buddhism.
Means "greater vehicle". 
different ways to Nirvana, more of an afterlife
Believe all people are related, need guidance
Reveres the Buddha, Bodhisattvas, and other powerful beings such as Hindu Gods.
Believe in a higher power of which Siddhartha and many others are incarnations
Bodhisattvas: compassionate beings who put off Enlightenment to help humanity
China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Russia

10. Zen Buddhism “Practical Buddhism”
Great emphasis on meditation, slowing down life
Do not believe in supernatural beings or that Buddha was more than a man
Japan, parts of China

12. Vajrayana Buddhism Provides a quicker path to Enlightenment
Means “Diamond vehicle” also called “Tibetan Buddhism”
They believe that the physical has an effect on the spiritual and vice versa, emphasize questioning and skepticism
Encourage rituals, chanting, and tantra techniques
Devotion to gurus or lamas
Dali Lama is believed to be an incarnation of  Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva of compassion
Tibet, Nepal