Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c5.s2.t13.48
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c5.s2.t13.48
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c5.s2.t13.48
8. Some radical changes were effected in the tenets of the schools which developed during this period, e.g., the Sarvāstivādins started their doctrine of realism, of the existence of past, present, and future, and so forth, while the Mahāsāṅghikas conceived Buddha docetically and introduced the Bodhisattva conception.