Buddha's first sermons and teachings stressed the need for a coherent progression of his massage. The religion did in fact split as it travelled across vast parts of Asis. The two major strands of Buddhism became teh Hinayana, the from of Buddhism that stresses the scriptures of the Buddha and the Mahayana that seeks to use teachers, lamas and Buddhist philosophers to interpret the word. In this study the development of these two branches of Buddhism are discussed.
