Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s3.t4.2

v2.c35.s3.t4.2

Our main source of information regarding the literature of this school is the Chinese and occasionally Tibetan versions of the Tripiṭaka, supplemented by the find of manuscripts in Central Asia, Eastern Turkestan, Gilgit and Nepal, and by quotations found in works like the Lalitavistara, Mahāvastu, Madhyamaka-vṛtti, Sūtrālaṅkāra of Asaṅga, Divyāvadāna, Abhidharmakośa with its Bhāṣya and Vyākhyā. It may be questioned whether the informations available about the literature of this school are of the Sarvāstivādins or of the Mūla-Sarvāstivādins. For the present it is not possible to distinguish between the two.