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...

schools, the Mahāsāṃghika branch regarded the buddhas as being characterized primarily by their supramundane (lokottara) nature. The Mahāsāṃghikas advocated...

accepted as canonical by the Mahāsāṃghika school. The Theravādin Dīpavaṃsa, for example, records that the Mahāsāṃghikas had no abhidharma. However, other...

existed in the early Buddhist schools. The Sarvāstivāda, Kāśyapīya, Mahāsāṃghika, Ekavyāvahārika, Lokottaravāda, Bahuśrutīya, Prajñaptivāda, and Caitika...

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...

generally agrees that the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya is the oldest extant Buddhist Vinaya. According to Reginald Ray, the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya mentions the figure...

Buddhism suggests that Mahāsāṃghikas tried to change the traditional Vinaya by adding the above ten points to it. However, Mahāsāṃghikas hold that the Sthaviras...

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...

the early Buddhist schools, and is thought to have separated from the Mahāsāṃghika sect during the reign of Aśoka. Tāranātha viewed the Ekavyāvahārikas...

the Mahāsāṃghikas, the bodhisattva ideal and buddhahood was advocated over the ideal of becoming an arhat. Avalokitavrata wrote of the Mahāsāṃghikas as...

sources. However, fewer Mahāsāṃghika texts have survived in comparison to Sthavira material. One important source for Mahāsāṃghika EBTs is the Mahāvastu...

of consciousness. It was initially a theory of cognition held by the Mahasamghika and Sautrantika schools while the Sarvastivada-Vaibhasika school argued...

accepted as canonical by the Mahāsāṃghika school. The Theravādin Dīpavaṃsa, for example, records that the Mahāsāṃghikas had no abhidharma. However, other...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

monasticism and asceticism. The Mahāsāṃghika origin theory, which argues that Mahāyāna developed within the Mahāsāṃghika tradition. This is defended by...

that is absolute truth which is Nirvana. According to Andre Bareau, the Mahāsāṃghika school held that the nirvana reached by arhats was fundamentally inferior...

outflows. In many other ways, their views are similar to those of the Mahāsāṃghikas. According to the Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣā Śāstra, the Dharmaguptakas...

nothing of his entire body unpervaded by pure, bright awareness. The Mahāsāṃghikas also held that the mind’s nature (cittasvabhāva) is fundamentally pure...

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...

Emperor Ashoka, the Buddhist community split into two branches: the Mahāsāṃghika and the Sthaviravāda, each of which spread throughout India and split...

in Asian canonical manuscripts, including those of the Kāśyapīya, the Mahāsāṃghika, the Mahīśāsaka, the Sammatīya, and the Sarvāstivāda. The word Vinaya...

traditions or Nikaya schools, including Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda and Mahāsāṃghika. The doctrine is found, for example, in 2nd century CE sources like the...

reasonably good Sanskrit, sometimes with a Pali syntax, states Renou. The Mahāsāṃghika and Mahavastu, in their late Hinayana forms, used hybrid Sanskrit for...

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...

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...

prātimokṣa codes are extant, including those contained in the Theravāda, Mahāsāṃghika, Mahīśāsaka, Dharmaguptaka, Sarvāstivāda and Mūlasarvāstivāda vinayas...

Buddhism. It also does not include other Indian Buddhist schools, such as Mahasamghika and Pudgalavada.[citation needed] Two tenets belong to the path referred...