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The Emergence of Mahayana

The most significant split in schools of Buddhism most probably occurred in the first century BCE, when the Mahayana School diverged from Theravada.
The Emergence of Mahayana
Mahayana's precise origins are a mystery, but it emerged as a separate school of Buddhism in about the 1st century BCE.
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