Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism.

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A. To discuss many issues are often asked the difference between Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism is what? To understand this correctly, let's review the history of Buddhism and find out the origins of Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism. 
Buddha was born in the sixth century BC. He was 35 years old, 45 years lecture life and he entered Nip-80 years. Certainly he was the most energetic man in the world, teaching the dharma to the living day and night, and he only slept for two hours a day.
The Buddha preached the dharma to all classes: kings, princes, brahmans, merchants, nails, intellectuals, and ordinary people. His teachings meet the spiritual needs of each person. What he preached was called the Buddha. At that time there was no place called Theravada or Mahàyana. 
After he established the monkhood and the nuns, the Buddha introduced the principles of dogmatic precepts to protect the congregation called the Vinaya. His teachings included in the sermons given to monks and nuns are called dhamma. 
First Conference of the Catechism
After three months the Buddha passed away, his great disciples convened a congress in Rajagaha.Elder Kassapa (Ca-lettuce) abbot this conference. There are two very important members of this congress who are in favor of two different areas - they duplicate the law and the law (Dhamma and Vinaya): Ananda (Ananda) Near the Buddha for 25 years, he has transcendental memory, can re-read what the Buddha preached; and Upali re-read all the precepts the Buddha had promulgated.
In the first assembly, only two parts of France and the Law were identical. Although there is no differing view of Dharma (no mention of the Abhidhamma), there is only one discussion of the precepts. Before he passed away, he told the Venerable Ananda that if the Sangha wanted to amend a few precepts, they could amend it. At that time, Ananda was so melancholy that the Blessed One was dying, but for Ananda, it was impossible, so he did not ask the guru who is the precept. The members of the conference disagreed on what precepts were the young, and finally Kassapa decides that there is no precept that the Exalted One has to change, nor does he introduce any new precepts. any. So there is no good reason to change the precepts.
In the congress, the teachings are divided into different parts and each section is assigned to an elder and his disciples to remember. Then the teachings were passed from teacher to disciple. Dhamma is recited daily because the congregations regularly verify with each other to ensure that there are no shortcomings or additions. Historians recognize that the oral tradition is more reliable than a report written by a writer about an event that took place years later. 
The Second Coming of the Scriptures
A hundred years later, the second congress was held to discuss some of the precepts. After three months of the death of the Buddha, there was no change in the precepts because there was no economic, political or social change during that time. But 100 years later, some monks saw the need to change the rules. The orthodox monks say that there is no precept to change while others insist on changing a few precepts. Eventually some monks left the congress and founded the Mahasanghika.Although called the Great Society, it does not mean Mahayana. And in the second assembly, there was only discussion of the issues with the precepts and no discussion of the teachings.
The third edition of the third edition of the Buddhist Canon
, Asoka, was the third Buddhist congress to be held to discuss the differences between the monks of the opposite sex. In this festival, the difference is not limited to the precepts but also related to the teachings. At the end of the congress, Moggaliputta Tissa composed a book called Kathavatthu to refute the paranoid theories of some sects. The doctrine was approved and approved by the congress, called Theravada. The Abhidharma is assembled in this assembly.
After the third Buddhist congress, King Asoka's son, Mahinda, brought the Tripitaka to Sri Lanka together with the commentaries convened by the third congress. Classics brought to Ceylon are preserved until today without loss of a page. The scriptures are written in Pali, based on the Magadhi language spoken by the Buddha. There is no such thing as Mahayana at that time. 
Mahayana
In the middle of the first century BC to the first century AD, the terms Mahayana and Hinayana appeared in the Saddharma Pundarika Sutra).
Around the second century AD, the word "Mahayana" was gradually defined more clearly. Nagarjuna promotes the Mahayana philosophy of emptiness and in a small sutra called the Madhyamika-karika, which proves that all things are empty. By the fourth century, Asanga and Vasubandhu composed some works on the Mahayana sutras. After the first century AD, the Mahāyāna Buddhists began to make a clear position, and from there they introduced the Mahāyāna and the Hinayāna.
We should not mistake Theravada for Theravada because these terms are not synonymous. The elders of Buddhism passed on to Sri Lanka in the third century BC, when there was no Mahayana. Hinayana Buddhism flourished in India and was completely independent, not the form of Buddhism existing in Sri Lanka. Today, the Hinayana school no longer exists anywhere in the world. 
 It was decided that the word "Hinayana" should be removed because it has nothing to do with Buddhism present in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, etc. The above is a summary. about the history of Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana and Hinayana. 
Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism
Now, let's try to understand the difference between Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism. 
I studied Mahayana Buddhism for many years, and the mre I researched, the more I saw nothing of the difference between Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism in terms of basic doctrine.

• Both accept the Buddha as a guru.
• The Four Noble Truths in both schools are the same.
• The Eightfold Path in both schools is the same.
• Dependent Origination in both schools are the same.
• Both are not accepting the idea of ​​God creating this world.
• Both accept the Three Generals (Suffering, Impermanence, Anatta) and the Three Templars (Gender, Dhyana, Hue), without any difference.

These are the most important teachings of the Buddha and both schools recognize. 
There are also a few different points. Obviously the view of the Bodhisattva. Many people say that Mahayana is the fruit of the Bodhisattva leading to the Buddha, while the Theravada is brought to the Arahant. I must say that the Enlightened One, the Poetic One, and the Sublime are also Arahats. Mahayana textures never use Arhat. They use three terms: Bodhisattvas, Legacy, and Sutras. In the Theravada tradition, these three are called Bodhi.
Some say that Theravada Buddhism is useful because it teaches people to seek personal salvation. But how can a savage person be enlightened? Both schools accept three, or three, and also recognize the ideal Bodhisattva is the highest. However, Mahayana has fictitious mysterious bodhisattvas. Meanwhile, Theravada Buddhism holds that the Bodhisattva is a human being among us, and that he gives his life completely to enlightenment, will surely become a Buddha for the sake of the world, for his sake good for life. 
Grade three Buddhas
Three Buddhas Rating: Enlightenment (sammasambuddha), Single sensory (paccekabuddha), and sensory Sravaka (savakabuddha). The Nip-table between the three is the same. The only difference is that the chief virtue has more virtue and qualities than the other two.

Some people think that emptiness by Lord Long Mang is purely Mahayana. In fact, he bases himself on the thought of non-self and conditioned origination, already existing in the Pàli Canon. Once, the great Venerable Ananda asked the Buddha, "Are people talking about No, so nothing?" The Buddha replied, "Ananda, no self, has nothing to do with the ego in the world. Therefore, the world is not self. " This idea was given by Longmang when he wrote his famous book "Madhyamika-karika". In Mahayana Buddhism, besides the thought of emptiness, there is the concept of "consciousness" which has its origins in the original sutras. The Mahayana people only developed these concepts to create deep philosophies and psychology.. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.7/11/2018.