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Sarvastivada
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sarvāstivāda, Sabbatthivāda
thumb|Seated Buddha from the Sarvāstivādin monastery of Tapa Shotor, 2nd century CE
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Vinony's link graph records 599 inbound references to Sarvastivada, and connects out to Mahāyāna, Yogacara and Mahāmaudgalyāyana.
Vinony files it under Early Buddhist schools, Nikaya schools and Sarvāstivāda.
Vinony links it to 29 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Name
- Origination and history
- Early history
- Kushan era
- Tarim Basin
- Doctrine
- Sub-schools
- Vaibhāṣika
- Dārṣṭāntika and Sautrāntika
- Mūlasarvāstivādins
- Texts
- Vinaya
- Āgamas
- Abhidharma
- Later Abhidharma manuals
- Appearance and language
- Appearance
- Language
- Influence
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Seated Buddha from the Sarvāstivādin monastery of Tapa Shotor, 2nd century CE
The Sarvāstivāda (; ; ; ) was one of the early Buddhist schools established around the reign of Ashoka (third century BCE). It was particularly known as an Abhidharma tradition, with a unique set of seven canonical Abhidharma texts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sarvastivada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.