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Udyana or Udyāna (Sanskrit, meaning garden or orchard; Chinese: 烏萇; pinyin: Wūcháng) was a Buddhist region in North India delimited in part by the Indus River.

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History

The area is said to have supported some 500 viharas of the Sthavira nikāya at which traveling śrāmaṇeras were provided lodgings and food for three days. It is said Gautama Buddha's footprint or petrosomatoglyph, a rock on which he dried his clothes and a place where he converted a nāga.

It is said that the two schools derived from the Sthavira nikāya, the Dharmaguptaka and Kāśyapīya, were established in this area. Both of these schools had proto-Mahayana doctrines.

Udyāna is of vital importance in the Vajrayana schools of Buddhism, as most of the later tantras are identified as originating there.

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-'''Udyana''' or [[Udyāna]] (Sanskrit, meaning garden or orchard; Chinese: 烏萇; pinyin: Wūcháng) was a [[Buddhist]] region in North India delimited in part by the [[Indus River]]. The area is said to have supported some 500 viharas of the Sthavira nikāya at which traveling śrāmaṇeras were provided lodgings and food for three days. It is said Gautama Buddha's footprint or petrosomatoglyph, a rock on which he dried his clothes and a place where he converted a nāga.
+'''Udyana''' or [[Udyāna]] (Sanskrit, meaning garden or orchard; Chinese: 烏萇; pinyin: Wūcháng) was a [[Buddhist]] region in North India delimited in part by the [[Indus River]].
+== Location ==
+== History ==
+The area is said to have supported some 500 viharas of the Sthavira nikāya at which traveling śrāmaṇeras were provided lodgings and food for three days. It is said Gautama Buddha's footprint or petrosomatoglyph, a rock on which he dried his clothes and a place where he converted a [[Naga|nāga]].
 It is said that the two schools derived from the Sthavira nikāya, the Dharmaguptaka and Kāśyapīya, were established in this area. Both of these schools had proto-Mahayana doctrines.