SABBATTIVĀDA (PĀLI)/SARVĀSTIVĀDA (SANSKRIT)

Sarvāstivāda was a Hīnayāna school with its Piṭakas in Sanskrit. The Sarvāstivādins adopted grammatical Sanskrit as their literature and they possessed canon in three divisions, namely Sutra, Vinaya, Abhidharma. The Sarvāstivāda maintained that the...

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SARVĀSTIVĀDA ABHIDHAMMA

- rūpa – 01; cetasika – 11; Nirvāṇa, asaṅkhāta – 3; citta viprautta – 14 - Four views regarding the dhammās: 1. Bhavanyata (Ācariya Dhammatralā) – the future dhammās do not exist continuously 2. Lakṣanayata (Ācariya Ghosa) – dhammās bear tri-kāla (past,...

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SARVĀSTIVĀDINS' TEACHING ON 'INDIVIDUAL

   Therāvāda Sarvāstivāda 1 Rūpa Rūpa 2 Vedanā Caitasika 3 Saññā --4 Saṅkhārā Visampsayutta Saṅkārā 5 Viññāṇa Asavikāra cittaThe dhammās exist in their subtlest state. The arguments given in Kathāvattuppakarana: Sarvāstivādins: „All the five...

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ABHIDHARMA OF SARVĀSTIVĀDINS

The origin of Sarvāstivāda school is not known. Some scholars believe this school came to be after the Second Buddhist Council. By the time of Third Council this Theravāda got division into various branches and Sarvāstivāda was one of them. The Abhidharma...

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SAUTRĀNTIKA

Sautrāntika is one of the sub-sects of Theravāda school, emerged around the time of 3rd century BC. The Sautrāntika school is so named because it gave pre-eminence to the Sutta portion of the canon. Its followers trace their school back to Ānanda,...

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ĀRANYAKA PERIOD,

1. Inference (anumāna) 2. Perception (pratyakṣa) a) eyes b) eye consciousness c) object, form 1) eye consciousness 2) contact 3) feeling 4) perception 5) volition 6) one-pointedness Sautrāntikas introduced their own teaching called „theory of momentariness“...

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SAUTRĀNTIKA

In the Pāli tradition, the Sautrāntika is described as the Kassapika from Sankantika branch of the Suttavādins. Vasumitra noted, that at the beginning of the 4th century AD there was one school named Sautrāntika called Samkrantivāda too, from Sarvastivāda....

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