Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c32.2

v2.c32.2

We have two independent traditions about the secession of the Schools, one preserved in the *Kathāvatthu-aṭṭhakathā*, the Ceylonese chronicles and the Sinhalese *Nikāya-saṅgraha*, and the other in the treatises of Vasumitra, Bhavya and Vinītadeva. Though there are slight deviations in the order of secession of the schools, the two traditions, as shown in the annexed table, agree substantially. Vasumitra has assigned little later dates to the origin of some of the schools, but the dates are too vague to be of any consequence to us.