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{{Short description|One of the two principal sects of modern Thai Buddhism}}{{ref improve|date=January 2015}}{{buddhism}}The MahÄ NikÄya (literal translation: "great order") is one of the two principal monastic orders, or fraternities, of modern Thai and Cambodian Buddhism. The term is used to refer to any Theravada monks not within the Dhammayuttika Nikaya, the other principal monastic order. The Maha Nikaya is the largest order of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand and Cambodia, in Thailand taking up over 90% of the Buddhist monks in the country. - the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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After the founding of the Dhammayuttika NikÄya by the then-monk Prince Mongkut in 1833, decades later all recognized monks not ordained in the Dhammayuttika order were considered to be part of the maha nikÄya, the "great collection" of those outside the new Dhammayuttika fraternity. As such, most monks in Thailand belong to the Maha NikÄya more or less by default; the order itself did not originally establish any particular practices or views that characterized those adhering to its creed. There were in reality hundreds of different Nikayas throughout the Thai areas that were lumped together as the "Maha NikÄya".In Cambodia, a similar situation exists. The Dhammayuttika NikÄya was supposedly imported from Thailand in 1855, and those monks remaining outside the Dhammayuttika order were recognized as being members of the Maha NikÄya (Khmer: áá á¶áá·áá¶á Mohanikay). A separate supreme patriarch for the Dhammayuttika NikÄya was appointed by King Norodom. The previous national supreme patriarch then became the titular head of the Cambodian Maha NikÄya.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}In Thailand, a single supreme patriarch is recognized as having authority over both the Maha NikÄya and the Dhammayuttika NikÄya. In recent years some Maha NikÄya monks have campaigned for the creation of a separate Maha NikÄya patriarch, as almost all recent Thai supreme patriarchs have invariably been drawn from the royalty-supported Dhammayuttika NikÄya, despite Dhammayuttika NikÄya monks making up only six percent of the monks in Thailand.NEWS,weblink The politics of Thailand's Buddhist Supreme Patriarch, Channel News Asia, 2017-05-20, 2017-09-07,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170907122424weblink">weblink live,See also
- Dhammayuttika Nikaya
- Mahanayaka
- Nikaya
- Sangharaja
- Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia
- Supreme Patriarch of Thailand
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