The Mahāsāṃghika (Brahmi: 𑀫𑀳𑀸𑀲𑀸𑀁𑀖𑀺𑀓, "of the Great Sangha", Chinese: 大眾部; pinyin: Dà zhòng bù) was a major division (nikāya) of the early Buddhist...
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Buddhahood (section Mahāsāṃghika school)
schools, the Mahāsāṃghika branch regarded the buddhas as being characterized primarily by their supramundane (lokottara) nature. The Mahāsāṃghikas advocated...
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Tripiṭaka (section Mahāsāṃghika)
accepted as canonical by the Mahāsāṃghika school. The Theravādin Dīpavaṃsa, for example, records that the Mahāsāṃghikas had no abhidharma. However, other...
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existed in the early Buddhist schools. The Sarvāstivāda, Kāśyapīya, Mahāsāṃghika, Ekavyāvahārika, Lokottaravāda, Bahuśrutīya, Prajñaptivāda, and Caitika...
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the first early schools (generally believed to be the Sthavira and the Mahāsāṃghika) during or after the reign of Aśoka. Later, these first early sects were...
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Devadatta (section Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya research)
generally agrees that the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya is the oldest extant Buddhist Vinaya. According to Reginald Ray, the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya mentions the figure...
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Buddhism suggests that Mahāsāṃghikas tried to change the traditional Vinaya by adding the above ten points to it. However, Mahāsāṃghikas hold that the Sthaviras...
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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...
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Ekavyāvahārika (category Mahāsāṃghika)
the early Buddhist schools, and is thought to have separated from the Mahāsāṃghika sect during the reign of Aśoka. Tāranātha viewed the Ekavyāvahārikas...
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Nikaya Buddhism (section In the Mahāsāṃghika branch)
the Mahāsāṃghikas, the bodhisattva ideal and buddhahood was advocated over the ideal of becoming an arhat. Avalokitavrata wrote of the Mahāsāṃghikas as...
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Early Buddhist texts (section Mahāsāṃghika sources)
sources. However, fewer Mahāsāṃghika texts have survived in comparison to Sthavira material. One important source for Mahāsāṃghika EBTs is the Mahāvastu...
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Svasaṃvedana (section Mahasamghika school)
of consciousness. It was initially a theory of cognition held by the Mahasamghika and Sautrantika schools while the Sarvastivada-Vaibhasika school argued...
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accepted as canonical by the Mahāsāṃghika school. The Theravādin Dīpavaṃsa, for example, records that the Mahāsāṃghikas had no abhidharma. However, other...
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all of these doctrines are shared by the Theravada Pali texts and the Mahasamghika school's Śālistamba Sūtra. A recent study by Bhikkhu Analayo concludes...
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Caitika (category Mahāsāṃghika)
(Chinese: 制多山部 or 制多部) was an early Buddhist school, a sub-sect of the Mahāsāṃghika. They were also known as the Caityaka sect. The Caitikas proliferated...
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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...
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Zhihua Yao and Tse Fu Kuan consider the Ekottara Āgama to belong to the Mahāsāṃghika school. According to A.K. Warder, the Ekottara Āgama references 250 Prātimokṣa...
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monasticism and asceticism. The Mahāsāṃghika origin theory, which argues that Mahāyāna developed within the Mahāsāṃghika tradition. This is defended by...
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Nirvana (Buddhism) (section Mahāsāṃghika)
that is absolute truth which is Nirvana. According to Andre Bareau, the Mahāsāṃghika school held that the nirvana reached by arhats was fundamentally inferior...
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outflows. In many other ways, their views are similar to those of the Mahāsāṃghikas. According to the Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣā Śāstra, the Dharmaguptakas...
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Luminous mind (section Mahāsāṃghika)
nothing of his entire body unpervaded by pure, bright awareness. The Mahāsāṃghikas also held that the mind’s nature (cittasvabhāva) is fundamentally pure...
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Kukkuṭika (category Mahāsāṃghika)
pinyin: Jīyìn Bù) were an early Buddhist school which descended from the Mahāsāṃghika. It is likely that the name Kukkuṭika or Kukkulika originated from the...
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Emperor Ashoka, the Buddhist community split into two branches: the Mahāsāṃghika and the Sthaviravāda, each of which spread throughout India and split...
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in Asian canonical manuscripts, including those of the Kāśyapīya, the Mahāsāṃghika, the Mahīśāsaka, the Sammatīya, and the Sarvāstivāda. The word Vinaya...
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traditions or Nikaya schools, including Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda and Mahāsāṃghika. The doctrine is found, for example, in 2nd century CE sources like the...
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reasonably good Sanskrit, sometimes with a Pali syntax, states Renou. The Mahāsāṃghika and Mahavastu, in their late Hinayana forms, used hybrid Sanskrit for...
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Dharmakāya (section Mahāsāṃghika)
According to Guang Xing, two main aspects of the Buddha can be seen in Mahāsāṃghika teachings: the true Buddha who is omniscient and omnipotent, and the...
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Prajñaptivāda (category Mahāsāṃghika)
traditional Chinese: 說假部; ; pinyin: Shuō Jiǎ Bù) was a branch of the Mahāsāṃghika, one of the early Buddhist schools in India. The Prajñaptivādins were...
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prātimokṣa codes are extant, including those contained in the Theravāda, Mahāsāṃghika, Mahīśāsaka, Dharmaguptaka, Sarvāstivāda and Mūlasarvāstivāda vinayas...
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Buddhism. It also does not include other Indian Buddhist schools, such as Mahasamghika and Pudgalavada.[citation needed] Two tenets belong to the path referred...
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