Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c37.s3: Literature

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The whole of the Pāli literature belongs to this school and as such it hardly needs any further comment. The only information that we should add is that Hiuen Tsang records that he carried to China fourteen volumes of the Sthavira Sūtras, Śāstras and Vinaya. No Sinologist has so far dealt with this literature and we are still in the dark about the Sthaviras whom the Chinese pilgrim had in view.