Buddhist sects in Myanmar

There was an early schism into four sects during the Pagan period, which was later ended by the purification effort of a Hanthawady king, according to the Kalyāṇi Sima stone inscriptions. Throughout the Ava period and early Konbaung period, new schisms emerged between city sect and forest sect, and between one-shoulder covering sect and both-shoulder covering sect. The defeat of the one-shoulder covering sect resulted in a unified order, but new sects broke out again in the late Konbaung period and throughout the British rule.