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branch of the
school composed the
large and
encyclopedic Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣa Śāstra
around the time of the
reign of
Kanishka (c. 127–150 CE). Because...
- The
Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣā Śāstra (Sanskrit: अभिधर्म महाविभाष शास्त्र) is an
ancient Buddhist text. It is
thought to have been aut****d
around 150 CE...
- existence" are to be
found in the Sarvāstivādin text the
Mahāvibhāṣa (阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論). For instance, the
Mahāvibhāṣa indicates a "basic existence" (本有), an "intermediate...
- Kashmir,
administered by
Kanishka I. He is
credited as
contributing to the
Mahāvibhāṣā.
Vasumitra put
forward a
thesis to
defend the
tenet of the Sarvastivada...
-
commentaries on the
canonical texts (like the Pāli Aṭṭhakathās and the
Mahāvibhāṣa), or
independent treatises (śāstra) in
their own right. In
these post-canonical...
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liberating path. The Sarvāstivāda Vaibhāṣika school's main commentary, the
Mahāvibhāṣā,
teaches the
bodhisattva path
based on a
system of four pāramitās: generosity...
-
Sanskrit and
their main
canonical Abhidharma text was composed, the
Mahāvibhaṣa.
Scholars at
present have "a
nearly complete collection of sūtras from...
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Central Asia.
Their highly complex Abhidharma treatises, such as the
Mahavibhasa, the
Sravakabhumi and the Abhidharmakosha,
contain new
developments in...
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presence of a
living Buddha is also
necessary for Sarvāstivāda. The
Mahāvibhāṣā explains that its
discussion of the
bodhisattva path is
partly meant...
- and
Bactria by
their orthodox adherence to the
doctrines found in the
Mahāvibhāṣa, from
which their name is
derived (Vaibhāṣa is a vṛddhi
derivative of...
