Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c6.s2: (v) Saṅghas or Gaṇas
Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c6.s2
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(v) Saṅghas or Gaṇas
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Out of these *parivrājakas* were formed, from time to time, groups who expressed their allegiance to a certain teacher, or subscribed to some common tenets, marks, or style of dress. Of these we may refer to the Māgaṇḍikas,³ Vekhanassas,⁴ Pārāsāriyas, orders of the six Teachers: Sañjaya, Pakudha, Ajita, Maṅkhali Gosāla, Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta and Gautama Buddha (Sākyaputtiya-samaṇas); and to the Jaṭilas,⁵ Teḍaṇḍikas,⁶ Aviruddhakas,⁷ and Devadhammikas. In the *Nikāyas* we have scanty accounts of the teachings of the six teachers, to be dealt with in the next chapter, but none of the rest.⁸
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³ *Majjhima*, I, pp. 501-13.
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⁴ *Ibid.*, II, pp. 40 44.
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⁵ *Ibid.*, I, p. 282.
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⁶ *Vinaya*, II, pp. 132, 196; *Lalitavistara*, p. 238.
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⁷ *Sutta Nipāta*, vs. 365, 704, 854.
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⁸ See *Buddhist India*, p. 145-6. *Aṅguttara*, III, p. 276.