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orthodox Sarvāstivādins who
upheld the
doctrines in the Mahāvibhāṣa were
called Vaibhāṣikas.
According to the Theravādin Dīpavaṃsa, the
Sarvāstivādins emerged...
- from the
Sthavira nikāya by way of
their immediate parent school, the
Sarvāstivādins.
While they are
identified as a
unique doctrinal tendency, they were...
- analytic, and
systematic in
content and style. The Theravādin and
Sarvāstivādin Abhidharmikas generally considered the
Abhidharma to be the pure and...
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extensive fragments of a
Sarvastivadin Sanskrit recension of the Dīrgha Āgama text were discovered.
Portions of the
Sarvastivadin recension also survive...
- and
doctrinal Abhidharma texts). Some of the main
sects included the
Sarvāstivādins ("Temporal Eternalists"), the
Dharmaguptakas ("Preservers of Dharma")...
- was the
spiritual teacher of the
Mauryan emperor Ashoka.: 16 In the
Sarvāstivādin tradition he is the
fifth patriarch after Mahākaśyapa, Ānanda, Madhyāntika...
- as the Patisambhidamagga, the
Vimuttimagga and the Visuddhimagga. In
Sarvastivadin abhidharma texts, the "path of insight" (darśana-mārga) one of the five...
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biographies such as the Buddhacarita, the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu, the
Sarvāstivādin Lalitavistara Sūtra, give
different accounts about the life of the Buddha;...
- the
Sarvāstivādins held the same
position as the Mahāsāṃghika
branch about arhats,
considering them
imperfect and fallible. In the
Sarvāstivādin Nāgadatta...
- and in
Tibetan translation. A
complete Chinese translation from the
Sarvāstivādin recension appears in the
Chinese Buddhist canon,
where it is
known as...
