Kadam
A tradition no longer extant within Vajrayāna. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Kadam is recorded within Vajrayāna and is no longer extant. Also written Bka' gdams pa, Kadampa.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Atiśa (982–1054). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Calkowski places the Kadam-pa in the mid-11th century under Atiśa, emphasising strict ascetic discipline; the Encyclopedia.com entry gives Atiśa's dates as 982–1054 and records that he brought Buddhism to western Tibet in 1042. The school was later absorbed into the Gelug, which is why its status is extinct.
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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. “Kadam.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-kadam.
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title = {Kadam},
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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.