Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s3.t2.9
Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s3.t2.9
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v2.c35.s3.t2.9
Fahien (319-414 A.D.) noticed the existence of this school at Pāṭaliputra while Yuan Chwang (629-645 A.D.) found it "chiefly in Kashgar, Udyana, and several other places in the Northern Frontier, in Matipur, Kanauj, and a place near Rājagṛha and also in Persia."² I-tsing came across the adherents of this school in Lāṭa, Sindhu, Southern and Eastern India, Sumatra, Java, China, Central Asia and Cochin China.³ From the above evidences it is apparent how widely popular was this school all over Northern India and outside India, but little known in Southern and Western India.