Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c36.10

v2.c36.10

Yuan Chwang writes that he carried to China 15 treatises of this school⁴ while I-tsing speaks of its separate Vinaya text.⁵ The latter tells us further that this Vinaya had rules regulating the use of undergarment, girdle, medicines, and beds for the members of the sect in a way peculiar to itself. The only treatise that is expressly mentioned as belonging to this school in Nanjio's Catalogue and extant in Chinese translation is the Sāmmitīya-śāstra or Sāmmitīyanikāyaśāstra containing the tenets of this sect. Most of the passages cited in the Kathāvatthu as giving the views of the Sāmmitīya school are traced in the Pāli Piṭaka. It is very likely that the Sutta-piṭaka of the Sāmmitīyas was substantially the same as that in Pāli.