ABSTRACT
Buddhism is a Western term for the great body of doctrine, tradition and culture which stems from the enlightenment of Gautama the Buddha. Various schools arose among his followers, including the Theravada, whose canon in Pali began to be written down in the first century BC, and the two schools of the Mahayana, the Madhyamika, associated with the name of Nagarjuna, and the Mind-Only school founded centuries later by Asanga and Vasubandhu.
