Dhammayuttika Nikāya
A living tradition within Theravāda.
Dhammayuttika Nikāya is a living tradition within Theravāda. Also written Thammayut.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Mongkut (later King Rāma IV, r. 1851–1868). Founding date given as mid-19th century. Founded by the future King Mongkut during his more than twenty years as a monk; his associates in the sangha became the vanguard of the new fraternity when he became king in 1851. Both sources give 'mid-nineteenth century' rather than a single year, so none is asserted. Cambodia and Laos both adopted the Dhammayuttika reform from Thailand in the 19th century.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Dhammayuttika Nikāya.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-dhammayuttika-nikaya.
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title = {Dhammayuttika Nikāya},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-dhammayuttika-nikaya},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.