Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c34.2

v2.c34.2

In discussing the doctrines of the Śaila and other schools, Vasumitra has mixed them up with the Mahāsanghikas, probably with that section of the Mahāsanghikas who are distinguished in the *Kathāvatthu-aṭṭhakathā* as ekacce Mahāsanghikā. It is on the basis of the *Kathāvatthu* that we have distinguished the doctrine of the later Mahāsanghikas, whose opinion may be taken as identical with those of the Śaila and other schools and put them together in the following pages.