Tamrashatiya
| Translations of Tāmraśāṭīya | |
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| Sanskrit | Tāmraparṇīya Tāmraśāṭīya |
| Pali | Tambapaṇṇiya |
| Chinese | 赤銅鍱部; 紅衣部 (Pinyin: Chìtóngyèbù; Hóngyībù) |
| Japanese | 赤銅鍱部 (Rōmaji: Shakudōyōbu) |
| Korean | 적동섭부 (RR: Jeokdongseopbu) |
| Tibetan | གོས་དམར་སྡེ་ (Wylie: gos dmar sde) (THL: gö mar dé) |
| Vietnamese | Xích Đồng Diệp Bộ |
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The Tāmraśāṭīya (Sanskrit: ताम्रशाटीय, Tāmraśāṭīya), also called Tāmraparṇīya (Sanskrit; Pali: Tambapaṇṇiya) or Theriya Nikāya (Pali), was one of the early schools of Buddhism and a Sri Lankan branch of the Vibhajyavāda (ancestor of the Theravāda) school based in Sri Lanka.
Its sutras were written mainly in Pali; and the Pali canon of Buddhism largely borrowed from this school. The Tāmraśāṭīya is also known as the Southern transmission or Mahaviharavasin tradition. This contrasts with Sarvastivada or the 'Northern transmission', which was mostly written in Sanskrit and translated into Chinese and Tibetic languages.
The Tamrashatiya played a major role in the development of Theravada Buddhism and influenced Buddhist thoughts in Myanmar, Thailand, and other parts of Southeast Asia.