Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s7.10

v2.c35.s7.10

He adds that there can be no doubt about the fact that the monks of Kassapa-gotta were responsible for the propagation of Buddhism in the Himavanta. This school also claims Kassapa as its founder, so the same school was known by two names, one local as Haimavata and the other after its founder Kassapa as Kassapiya (= Kāśyapīya). The former name fell into disetude, and so the Chinese pilgrims refer to it by the other name only, the Kāśyapīyas.¹