Samayabhedoparacanacakra
Samayabhedoparacanacakra (T. Gzhung tha dad pa rim par bklag pa’i ’khor lo; C. Yibuzonglun lun 異部宗輪論). “The Wheel of the Formations of Divisions of the Doctrine”. An important historiographical text written by Vasumitra, a scholar of the Sarvāstivāda school, who wrote in Kashmir sometime around the second century CE.[1]
"The text records the Sarvāstivāda account of the evolution of the various schools (nikāya) that arose in the mainstream Buddhist community in the years after the Buddha’s death. Thus, it is an important source of information on the schools and subschools of mainstream Nikāya Buddhism in ancient India."[1]
According to Vasumitra, the divisions in the Buddhist sects occur roughly one hundred years later than they do in the Sinhalese Pāli records of the same events. "According to Vasumitra, the major disagreement that led to the first major schism in the SAṂGHA was the result of five propositions put forward by the monk Mahādeva concerning the nature and achievements of an arhat. The Mahāsāṃghika agreed with Mahādeva’s five theses, while the Sthaviranikāya did not, thus leading to the split."[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Samayabhedoparacanacakra