Jetavana
A tradition no longer extant within Theravāda.
Jetavana is recorded within Theravāda and is no longer extant.
Origin
Founding date given as mid-4th century CE. Date as given in the Encyclopedia of Religion 'Theravāda' entry; the smallest of the three ancient Sri Lankan fraternities.
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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. “Jetavana.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-jetavana.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Jetavana},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-jetavana},
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.