How to Experience Pure Contentment
Mahayana, or Eastern Buddhism, expands the Pali Canon and includes other religious texts and philosophies that encourage altruism and the need to live a life of universal compassion. This is central to their belief in an "Awakened mind." Practiced primarily in China, Korea and Japan, Mahayana Buddhism incorporates elements of mysticism and cosmology. Mahayana Buddhism itself has splintered into two variants.