Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s5.1
Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s5.1
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v2.c35.s5.1
The Kāśyapīya school was known by three other names, Sthāvīrīya, Saddharmavarṣaka, or Suvarṣaka. It issued out of the Sarvāstivādins on account of certain opinions which were more in agreement with those of the Sthaviravādins or Vibhajyavādins than with those of the Sarvāstivādins. This seems to be the cause of their being called a Sthāvīrīya. Its third name, Suvarṣaka, appears in the works of Tāranātha and Ch’en-lun, while Saddharmavarṣaka in Bhavya’s treatise.²