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'School of the Elders'; Chinese: 上座部佛教; Vietnamese: Thượng tọa bộ) [1] [2] is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The school's adherents, termed Theravādins ( anglicized from Pali theravādī ), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] have preserved their version of Gautama Buddha 's teaching or Dhamma in the ...
[note 8] Another school included most of their version of the Khuddaka Nikaya within their Abhidharma Pitaka. [16] Also, the Pali version of the Abhidhamma is a strictly Theravada collection, and has little in common with the Abhidhamma works recognized by other Buddhist schools. [18]
According to Theravāda sources, the elder monk Moggaliputta-Tissa chaired the Third council and compiled the Kathavatthu ("Points of Controversy"), an important work on Theravada doctrine which focuses on refuting various views of other sects. [6] According to the Theravada account, the third council also led to the split between the ...
Unlike Theravada and other early schools, Mahāyāna schools generally hold that there are currently many Buddhas which are accessible, and that they are transcendental or supramundane beings. [33] In India, there were two major traditions of Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy.
Northern Buddhism: Blue Eastern Buddhism: Yellow Southern Buddhism: Red Southern Buddhism, Eastern Buddhism, and Northern Buddhism are geographical terms sometimes used to describe the three main schools of Buddhism (Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna) as it spread from the northeastern region of the Indian subcontinent throughout Central Asia, East Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, and ...
The Pāli Canon of the Theravada school contains the most complete fully extant collection of EBTs in an Indic language which has survived until today. [41] According to the Theravada tradition, after having been passed down orally, it was first written down in the first century BCE in Sri Lanka. [42]
The Khuddaka Nikaya of the Theravada school is the only complete extant example of such a Khuddaka Pitaka. [1] Some texts from the Dharmaguptaka Kṣudraka Āgama are preserved in Chinese and Tibetan translation, and fragments of Gandhari versions have also been discovered.
The Dīrgha Āgama ("Long Discourses," Cháng Ahánjīng 長阿含經 Taishō 1) [9] corresponds to the Dīgha Nikāya of the Theravada school. A complete version of the Dīrgha Āgama of the Dharmaguptaka (法藏部) school was done by Buddhayaśas (佛陀耶舍) and Zhu Fonian (竺佛念) in the Late Qin dynasty (後秦), dated to 413 CE. It ...