Sarvastivada Buddhism

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Sarvastivada Buddhism was an influential early Buddhist school, prominent along the Silk Road, known for its detailed Abhidharma philosophy and the doctrine that all dharmas exist in the past, present, and future.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hinayana school
Nikaya school
early Buddhist school
abhidharmaPreservedIn Chinese canon
Tibetan canon NERFINISHED
associatedWithText Abhidharma NERFINISHED
Abhidharma Mahavibhasa Shastra NERFINISHED
Abhidharma Pitaka NERFINISHED
Abhidharma texts in Sanskrit
Jñanaprasthana NERFINISHED
Mahavibhasa NERFINISHED
consideredBy later tradition as one of the 18 schools
contrastedWith Mahayana Buddhism NERFINISHED
Theravada Buddhism NERFINISHED
flourishedAlong Silk Road NERFINISHED
flourishedIn Central Asia NERFINISHED
Gandhara NERFINISHED
Kashmir NERFINISHED
hasDoctrinalFocus Abhidharma NERFINISHED
hasDoctrine all dharmas exist in past, present, and future
real existence of dharmas in three times
sarvam asti
hasKeyConcept classification of dharmas
dependent origination
dharmas as ultimately real
eighteen elements (dhatus)
five aggregates (skandhas)
four noble truths
momentariness of dharmas
path to arhatship
twelve sense bases (ayatanas)
hasMonasticCode Sarvastivada Vinaya NERFINISHED
hasSubdivision Sautrantika (as a related movement) NERFINISHED
Vaibhashika Sarvastivada NERFINISHED
influenced Chinese Buddhism NERFINISHED
East Asian Abhidharma traditions NERFINISHED
Vaibhashika school NERFINISHED
Yogacara school NERFINISHED
originatedIn Indian subcontinent
Northwest India NERFINISHED
religion Buddhism
timePeriod circa 3rd century BCE to early 1st millennium CE
transmittedTo Central Asian oases
China NERFINISHED
Khotan NERFINISHED
Kucha NERFINISHED
usesLanguage Gandhari NERFINISHED
Prakrits
Sanskrit
vinayaPreservedIn Chinese canon

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Kingdom of Kucha religion Sarvastivada Buddhism
Fourth Buddhist Council (Kanishka) primarySchoolInvolved Sarvastivada Buddhism
this entity surface form: Sarvastivada