An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c8.s2.t1.2

c8.s2.t1.2

The community already had numerous schools of thought,¹ but these distinctions did not create sects: all Buddhists still worshipped together. Of these schools we must now distinctly envisage three, if we are to understand the development, the Sthaviras, who were phenomenalists, the Sarvāstivādins, who were realists, and the Mahāsānghikas, who were idealists.