门 mén gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal / derived from Watergate) 门 派 mén pài sect / school (group of followers of a particular doctrine) 门 户 mén hù door / strategic gateway / portal / faction / sect / family status / family / web portal / (old) brothel 派 系 pài xì sect / faction 教 派 jiào pài sect 宗 派 zōng pài sect 宗 zōng school / sect / purpose / model / ancestor / clan / to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work) / classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs 玄 理 xuán lǐ profound theory / philosophical theory of Wei and Jin 玄學|玄学 / sect 教 主 jiào zhǔ founder or leader of a religion or sect / (fig.) revered figure 佛 祖 Fó zǔ Buddha / founder of a buddhist sect 祖 师 zǔ shī founder (of a craft, religious sect etc) 什 叶 派 Shí yè pài Shia sect (of Islam) 祖 师 爷 zǔ shī yé founder (of a craft, religious sect etc) 逊 尼 派 Xùn ní pài Sunni sect (of Islam) 旁 门 左 道 páng mén zuǒ dào dissenting religious sect (idiom) / heretical school of opinion / dissident group 瓦 哈 比 教 派 wǎ hā bǐ jiào pài Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam) 印 度 袄 Yìn dù ǎo Parsee or Parsi, member of the Zoroastrian sect (religion) 噶 当 派 Gá dāng pài Bkar-dgam-pa sect of Tibetan Buddhism 噶 举 派 Gá jǔ pài Geju (Tibetan: transmit word of Buddha) sect of Tibetan Buddhist 智 顗 Zhì yǐ Zhiyi (538-597), founder of the Tiantai sect of Buddhism 白 山 宗 Bái shān zōng Sufi sect of Islam in central Asia 白 山 派 Bái shān pài Sufi sect of Islam in central Asia 虔 信 派 qián xìn pài pious sect / fundamentalist faction 斋 教 Zhāi jiào Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism 智 𫖮 Zhì yǐ Zhiyi (538-597), founder of the Tiantai sect of Buddhism