Rāmañña Nikāya
A living tradition within Theravāda.
Rāmañña Nikāya is a living tradition within Theravāda.
Origin
Founding date given as 1864. Established in 1864 when a group of monks with a more uncompromising attitude toward caste distinction within the sangha and a more 'modernist' approach to teaching and practice formed their own independent fraternity.
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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. “Rāmañña Nikāya.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-ramanna-nikaya.
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title = {Rāmañña Nikāya},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-ramanna-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.