Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c14.s3.4

c14.s3.4

Under Kaniṣka who presented a casket with Buddha’s relics to the Sarvāstivādins, it seems,¹ must be placed the writing of a commentary, Vibhāṣā, on the Abhidharma, whence the name of the Vaibhāṣika school of Buddhism, whose centre was apparently Kashmir, although in that country itself there were Buddhists who were not Vaibhāṣikas, and although we hear of Vaibhāṣikas of the outer country, the west, and the northern borders.