The Buddho Foundation
About Bhante
Bhante, sometimes also called Bhadanta, is a respectful title used to address Buddhist monks and superiors in the Theravada tradition.
Buddhist Society of Western Australia
Buddhist Society of Western Australia
Honorific Buddhist titles – religious positions & qualifications
Honorific Buddhist titles are covering formal and informal religious relationships.
These may take the form of prefixes, suffixes or replacement of a person's name, in certain contexts.
It may signify either an official religious position, or a qualification.
This is a list of Honorific Buddhist titles given in divers Buddhist schools around the .
Theravada – Buddhism’s oldest existing school
Theravāda is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school.
The school's adherents, termed Theravādins, have preserved their version of Gautama Buddha's teaching or Buddha Dhamma in the Pāli Canon for over a millennium.
The Pāli Canon is the most complete Buddhist canon surviving in a classical Indian language, Pāli, which serves as the school's sacred language and lingua franca.
In contrast to Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna, Theravāda tends to be conservative in matters of .
