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| | Sarvastivada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Sarvastivada are one of only two of the "Early Schools" of Buddhism to have their written works survive in substantial, whole books unto the present day. | | | Among the critics of the Sarvastivada was Nagarjuna, who completely repudiated their interpretation of the Buddha's teaching as implying atom-like unities at the basis of visible phenomena, and many of the other features of their philosophy, such as a complex theory of causality and (as mentioned) time. | | | Among the defining canonical texts composed by the Sarvastivada was the Maha-vaibhasa-abhidharma-shastra, traditionally considered a systematization of the spoken teachings of Gautama Buddha. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarvastivada
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| | The Berzin Archives - Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan |
| | Sarvastivada remained the predominant Buddhist tradition of Nagarahara and northern Bactria. | | | According to early Hinayana biographies of the Buddha, such as the Sarvastivada text The Sutra of Extensive Play (Lalitavistara), Tapassu and Bhallika, two merchant brothers from Bactria, became the first disciples to receive layman's vows. | | | Kashmiri monks soon spread the Sarvastivada School of Hinayana to Bactria. |
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http://www.berzinarchives.com/islam/history_afghanistan_buddhism.html
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| | Dharma Fellowship: Library - Yogacara Theory - Part One: Background History |
| | Vasubandhu was trained in the orthodox Sarvastivada Order of Buddhism, which had its seat at Kausambhi (near modern Allahabad, in the centre of India) during the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries AD. | | | The former is an exponent of the Vaibhasika (i.e., abhidharma) teachings of the Sarvastivada school, while the latter was an exponent of the Sautrantika. | | | The Sautrantika, which felt that the exponents of Abhidharma had deviated from the original teachings of the Buddha as expressed in the Sutras (hence their name, the "Sutra-school"). |
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http://www.dharmafellowship.org/library/essays/yogacara-part1.htm
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| | The Buddhist Scriptures |
| | Besides this Pali recension of the Sthaviravada school there are fragmentary texts of the Sarvastivada or of the Mulasarvastivada which are preserved in Sanskrit. | | | The word is used basically to refer to the literature, the authorship of which is directly or indirectly ascribed to the Buddha himself. | | | By Canon it is meant the Tripitaka [Pali Tipitaka] of the Buddhists, both Theravada and Mahayana. |
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http://www.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/ebsut022.htm
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| | Lalitavistara |
| | Apart from being a biography of Buddha, originally of the Sarvastivada School of the Hinayana sect, it throws a considerable light also on the social and cultural history of India during the early centuries of the Christian era. | | | In other words, it was originally a Sarvastivada text, which was later on expanded and embellished with Mahayana ideas laying emphasis on Buddha's superhuman character and miraculous deeds. | | | It has been established that many of the verses and prose passages in the Lalitavistara have come from the Sarvastivada canon, while its Mahayana leanings and elements are apparent from such terms as Dharmatathata, Bhutakoti, etc. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/radha/rpub007.htm
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| | The Doctrine of Svabhava or Svabhavata and the Questions of Anatman and Shunyata by David Reigle |
| | The Sarvastivada position seems to be that the svabhava of a dharma is eternal, although an independently existing entity (bhava) is not eternal. | | | In this manner the old Sarvastivada teaching of svabhava as eternal, taken to refer to the individual dharmas, was superseded. | | | The Sautrantikas are saying that this position is so illogical that it would have to be the work of an all-powerful God who could transcend the laws of reason, and hence for Buddhists it is completely absurd. |
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http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/reigle01.html
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| | Online edition of Daily News - Features |
| | The Sarvastivada school of Buddhism emerged during the Asokan age over a doctrinal controversy with the Theravadins. | | | Among them are best known and the most comprehensive is the Abhidharma of the Sarvastivada School of Buddhist Thought. | | | What all this means is that in order to have a comprehensive knowledge of the Sarvastivada Abhidharma one has to fall back on Chinese and Tibetan sources, besides the few works still available in the original Sanskrit. |
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http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/05/23/fea06.html
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| | Abhidhamma Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | However, comparison of the content of the Sarvastivada texts with that of the Theravada Abhidhamma reveals that it is unlikely that this indicates that one textual tradition originated from the other. | | | Within the Theravada tradition, the prominance of the Abhidhamma has varied considerably from country to country, with mainland Southeast Asia placing the least emphasis on the study of the Abhidhamma and Sri Lanka the most. | | | The Sarvastivada Abhidharma also consists of seven texts. |
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http://www.texanartists.com/encyclopedia/Abhidhamma
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| | Vasubandhu [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | At Vasubandhu's time the dominant Buddhist school in Gandhara was the Vaibhashika (also called Sarvastivada). | | | Samghabhadra, a Sarvastivada scholar from Kashmir, also once challenged Vasubandhu regarding the Abhidharmakosha. | | | Long ago, this work of mine destroyed the Vaibhashika (i.e., the Sarvastivada) doctrines. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/v/vasubandhu.htm
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| | AlternativeApproaches.com: The Genesis of Tibetan Buddhism |
| | To oversimplify: the first group teaches that enlightenment should be sought for the self, and this is primarily accomplished through “insight meditation” and the study of the Sutras, which are the Buddhas teachings in written form. | | | As it grew, and distinguished itself from its Hindu roots, it began to splinter off into subgroups of its own, most notably the Buddhism as practiced by the masses, (Theravada, Sarvastivada, etc.), and a more sophisticated form of the religion, known as Mahayana. | | | Although Buddhism never supplanted Hinduism in overall popularity, Buddhism flourished and grew rapidly in India. |
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http://www.alternativeapproaches.com/altapr/aatibet02.html
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| | The XIV Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies - London 2005 |
| | Harivarman's *Tattvasiddhi or Perfection of Truth is a compendium of the doctrines of abhidharma similar to the H?daya-treatises of Sarvastivada, or to the Abhidharmakosa. | | | It is generally believed that the Abhidharma presents the doctrines, which are available in the sutras in scattered and unstructured form. | | | While neither its original Sanskrit text nor any related material is found in Indian sources, its Chinese version by the renowned translator Kumarajiva (T. 1646) is well known in East Asia as the fundamental scripture of the Ch'eng-shih tzung (Tattvasiddhi school). |
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http://www.soas.ac.uk/Religions/iabs2005/section_abstracts.htm
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| | Buddhist Himalaya 2003 |
| | The dhamma theory was not peculiar to any one school of Buddhism but penetrated all the early schools, stimulating the growth of their different versions of the Abhidhamma. | | | However, in its fully developed form the Theravada version of the theory is found in the Abhidhamma literature of Sri Lanka. | | | However in the Abhidhamma commentaries compiled in Sri Lanka we find a modification of this definition to mean that only colour constitutes the sphere of visibility (rupayatana). |
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http://www.nagarjunainstitute.com/buddhisthim/abhidharma.htm
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| | Definitions Mula-Sarvaastivaada |
| | The Avadana literature of the Sarvastivada School seems to have based on the Vinaya of the Mulasarvastivada School, which is found in Tibetan translation. | | | After the Parinirvana of the Buddha, his Sangha is said to have split into eighteen schools, three of which are significant: the Sthavira (P. Theravada), the Sarvastivada, and the Mahasanghika. | | | It is within the Sarvastivada School that the Mulasarvastivada School was formed. |
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http://repository0.tripod.com/mula_sarvastivada.html
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| | PHIL 320 Handout 15: Sarvastivada |
| | Sarvastivada provides an analysis of the Abhidharma literature of early Buddhism. | | | Arguments Against Unity: The substance assumption is that while an object is composed of parts, we can know it as a whole. | | | The Sarvastivada argument is that unless the nature of an object were change and cessation, no outside force could alter it or bring about its demise. |
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http://www.calpoly.edu/~jlynch/307091.htm
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| | Adherents.com |
| | "Buddhism in Cambodia: This region was in contact with a Sanskrit tradition of Buddhism in the 3rd century C.E., probably that of the Sarvastivada school, which reached its zenith in the 5th and 6th centuries. | | | Two other schools that splintered from the Sthaviras are the Sarvastivada, out of which, around 150 B.C.E., came the Sautrantikas, and the Vibhajyavadins, who see themselves as orthodox Sthaviras. | | | Out of this last school arose the Theravada, Mahishasakas, and Kashyapiyas; from the Mahishasakas came the Dharmaguptakas. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_581.html
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| | The Abhidharma |
| | The great work of the sect is the Method of Knowledge, ascribed to a certain Katyayaniputra; it contains the typical doctrines of the Sarvastivada. | | | Its date is usually settled at about 200 B.C. The last work of the Abhidharma is possibly some addition composed in the two following centuries. | | | Therefore, in speaking about the Sarvastivada, we have chosen for the word 'force' as translation of 'samskara' rather than for 'volition' or '`inclination.' Not everything is here a function of volition. |
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http://home.uni-one.nl/olive.press/abhi.htm
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| | philosophy nagarjuna |
| | Also, through relativating philosophical and even soteriological concepts (ideas) he has opened, from an originally a-metaphysical Buddhism, a way towards a wider - and in a certain sense even a metaphysical - research, even towards a so-called horizontal mysticism. | | | We can thus determine notable differences between Nagarjuna and the traditional Hinayana doctrines. | | | Nagarjuna emphasizes sunyata (emptiness) over anatmya (P. anatta - non-self); he posits dharma-sunyata instead of dharma-svabhava (Sarvastivada) and pudgala-sunyata (Sarvastivada, Sautrantika, Theravada). |
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http://www.akshin.net/philosophy_6.htm
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Sarvastivada ? |
| | I'm not aware of an online version, but Charles Prebish has published a translation in his book "Buddhist Monastic Discipline". | | | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Sarvastivada ? | | | At the conclusion of the translation (he translates both the Mulasarvastivadin and the Mahasamghika Vinayas) there is a concordance table contrasting four Vinaya systems: Theravada, Sarvastivada, Mulasarvastivada, and Mahasamghika. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t5428.html
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| | Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Sarvastivada school |
| | It holds that since living beings are formed by a temporary union of the five components there is no real or permanent self, but that the dharmas, or elements of existence that compose the living being, are real and have their own existence throughout the past, present, and future. | | | Further commentaries were later written on these seven, the most famous of which is The Great Commentary on the Abhidharma, an exhaustive statement of Sarvastivada thought. | | | The Sarvastivada school sets forth the view that everything has an existence of its own. |
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http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/sgdb/lexicon.cgi?tid=744
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| | Chapter Seven |
| | v) The renowned Abhidharmakosa of the third to fourth century which combines the best teachings of the Sarvastivada and Sautrantika schools, and the Satyasiddi Sastra of Harivarman which greatly influenced Chinese Buddhism. | | | i) The Samgitiparyaya, the Dharmaskandha, the Prajnapti, the Vijnanakaya, the Dhatukaya, the Prakaranapada, the Jnanaprasthana, the Mahavibhasa, the Abhidharma-hrdaya -vyakhya, the Abhiraharmananyanyanusara and the Abhidharmasamayapradipika Sastras of the Sarvastivada school. | | | While the Chinese Tripitaka has an especially large collection of the work of the Sarvastivada school, it also possesses the Abhidharma work of practically all sects. |
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http://members.tripod.com/triple_gem/id7.html
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| | Buddhist Scriptures: First Rehearsal of the Tipitaka |
| | A later text of the Sarvastivada School, the Asokavadana states that Kasyapa recited the Matrka or Matrka Pitaka (two versions of the text). | | | The Mahisasaka version makes no mention of a third Pitaka.The Sarvastivada and Dharmaguptaka Vinayas on the other hand have Ananda reciting the Abhidhamma as well as the Sutra. | | | The same tradition is found in the Vinaya of the Mula Sarvastivada School, a late offshoot of the Sarvastivada which thoroughly revised and enlarged its Tipitaka. |
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| | Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Great Commentary on the Abhidharma, The |
| | According to tradition, the compilation was carried out by five hundred arhats under the guidance of Parshva and the support of King Kanishka at the time of the Fourth Buddhist Council; the compilation took twelve years. | | | This two-hundred-volume work is a commentary on Katyayaniputra's Treatise on the Source of Wisdom, the basic doctrinal text of the Sarvastivada school, and was translated into Chinese by Hsüan-tsang in the mid-seventh century. | | | The Great Commentary on the Abhidharma sets forth the doctrine of the conservative Sarvastivada school of Kashmir and refutes the positions of the more progressive Gandhara Sarvastivada school, the Mahasamghika school, the non-Buddhist Samkhya school, and other non-Buddhist schools. |
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http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/sgdb/lexicon.cgi?tid=2578
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| | Buddhism in a Nutshell - Chap 55 |
| | Before Vasubandhu was converted to Mahayana by his brother Asanga, he was an ordained monk of Sarvastivada school. | | | The Abhidharma-kosha was actually an outline of the philosophy of a group of Sarvastivada scholars. | | | Another translated text was done by Hsuan-tsang in Tang Dynasty. |
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http://www.buddhistdoor.com/bdoor/0206/sources/teach55.htm
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| | however the root abhidharma text is Vasubhandu's Abhidharmakosha which is principally a discussion of Sarvastivada and Sautrantika doctrines, plus others. | | | although the Mahasanghika and Sarvastivada vinayas were used, the Chinese (and after the Japanese) preferred the Dharmaguptaka vinaya supplemented by the additional bodhisattva vinaya. | | | however, the lineage contains names common to Theravada, Sarvastivada, and Sautrantika schools. |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/buddhism/9604.budhist.jn
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| | Online edition of Daily News - Features |
| | Elsewhere in the same work we are told that two things in this world are not born of karma (akammaja), or of causes (ahetuja), or of season (anutuja), namely Nibbana and space. | | | This is a very significant departure from its Sarvastivada version. | | | Thus what the Sarvastivadins call unconditioned space is the space considered as absolutely real and as serving as a receptacle for the existence and movement of material phenomena. |
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http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/08/11/fea01.html
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| | but they can traced to two schools: the mahasanghika and the sarvastivada. | | | the sarvastivada introduced (or emphasiszed) the notion of the three bodes (trikaya). |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/buddhism/r200205mahayana.txt
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