- The
Mahāsāṃghika (Brahmi: 𑀫𑀳𑀸𑀲𑀸𑀁𑀖𑀺𑀓, "of the
Great Sangha", Chinese: 大眾部; pinyin: Dà zhòng bù; Vietnamese: Đại chúng bộ) was a
major division...
- schools, the
Mahāsāṃghika branch regarded the
buddhas as
being characterized primarily by
their supramundane (lokottara) nature. The
Mahāsāṃghikas advocated...
-
existed in the
early Buddhist schools. The Sarvāstivāda, Kāśyapīya,
Mahāsāṃghika, Ekavyāvahārika, Lokottaravāda, Bahuśrutīya, Prajñaptivāda, and Caitika...
- was one of the
early Buddhist schools. They
split from the
majority Mahāsāṃghikas at the time of the
Second Buddhist council. The
Sthavira nikāya was...
-
generally agrees that the
Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya is the
oldest extant Buddhist Vinaya.
According to
Reginald Ray, the
Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya mentions the figure...
- from any of the
Mahāsāṃghika school branches,
there are
several surviving texts including the Mahāvastu (Great Event), the
Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya (translated...
-
Buddhism suggests that
Mahāsāṃghikas tried to
change the
traditional Vinaya by
adding the
above ten
points to it. However,
Mahāsāṃghikas hold that the Sthaviras...
- One of the few
Mahāsāṃghika texts which survive, the Mahāvastu, is from this school.
Another sub-sect
which emerged from the
Mahāsāṃghika was
called the...
- Nikāyas (monastic groups, divisions), the
Sthavira ("Elders"), and the
Mahāsāṃghika ("Great Community"). This
initial split occurred either during the reign...
- the
Mahāsāṃghikas, the
bodhisattva ideal and
buddhahood was
advocated over the
ideal of
becoming an arhat.
Avalokitavrata wrote of the
Mahāsāṃghikas as...
