Schools of Bhutanese Buddhism

The early Buddhist schools are those schools into which, according to most scholars, the Buddhist monastic Sangha initially split, due originally to differences in vinaya, and later also due to doctrinal differences and geographical separation of groups of monks. The original Sangha split into the first early schools a significant number of years after the death of Gautama Buddha; according to scholar Collett Cox “most scholars would agree that even though the roots of the earliest recognized gr