Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c31.2

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*Sources (Earlier):* (i) Our main sources of information for the history of the Second Council are the *Cullavagga* of the Vinaya Piṭaka and the *Vinayakṣudrakavastu*, the Tibetan translation of the *Mūla-sarvāstivāda Vinaya*,¹ which forms also the basis of Buston’s and Tāranātha’s accounts of the Council, as also of Rockhill. The Ceylonese chronicles and Pāli commentaries derive their information mainly from the *Cullavagga* and so have no independent value of their own. The account of Yuan Chwang is useful inasmuch as his information is derived from the Chinese versions of the Vinaya texts of the Mahāsaṅghika and other schools.