Mahayana

branch of Buddhism popular in East Asia and Vietnam that sees the goal of becoming a buddha through the bodhisattva path as being available to all and sees the state of the arhat as incomplete

7 dated entries naming Mahayana, drawn from 7 separate years between 96 CE and 825 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Mahayana Buddhism, Mahâyâna in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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1st century

96A schism in Buddhism creates a new, popular religion in India, Mahâyâna ("Great Vehicle").source

2nd century

150Nagarjuna, founder of Mahayana "Great Vehicle" (died c. 250)source

3rd century

276Mahasena reigns in Ceylon. Orthodox and unpopular, he tries to introduce Mahayana Buddhism to the country.source

4th century

394Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist scholar-monk (died 468)source

5th century

443Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist monk, is an invited honored guest by emperor Wen of Liu Song (Liu Song dynasty). He translates the Lankavatara Sutra from Sanskrit into the Chinese language.source
468Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist scholar-monk (born 394)source

9th century

825Borobudur, a Mahayana Buddhist Temple, is completed in Central Java (modern Indonesia).source