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The Ekavyvahrika (Sanskrit; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Y Shu B) was one of the early Buddhist schools, and is thought to have separated from the Mahsghika sect during the reign of Aoka.

Contents
1 History 1.1 Relationship to Mahsghika 1.2 Early history 2 Doctrines 2.1 Forty-eight theses 2.2 Trascendent speech 2.3 Fundamentally pure mind 3 References 4 See also
Cave temple associated with the Mahsghika sect. Aja Caves, Mahrtra, India

History
Relationship to Mahsghika
Trantha viewed the Ekavyvahrikas, Lokottaravdins, and Gokulikas as being essentially the same.[1] He even viewed Ekavyvahrika as being a general term for the Mahsghikas.[2] The Ekavyvahrikas, Gokulikas, and Lokottaravdins are the three groups that emerged from the first split in the Mahsghika sect. A.K. Warder notes that the Ekavyvahrikas were hardly known in later times and may have simply have been considered part of the Mahsghika.[3]

Early Buddhism
Scriptures
Gandhran texts gamas Pali Canon

Councils
1st Council 2nd Council 3rd Council 4th Council

Schools

Early history
The 6th century CE Indian monk Paramrtha wrote that 200 years after the parinirva of the Buddha, much of the Mahsghika school moved north of Rjagha, and were divided over whether the Mahyna teachings should be incorporated formally into their Tripiaka.[4] According to this account, they split into three groups based upon the relative manner and degree to which they accepted the authority of these Mahyna texts.[5] According to Paramrtha, the Ekavyvahrikas accepted the Mahyna stras as the words of the Buddha (buddhavacana).[6]

First Sangha Mahsghika Ekavyvahrika Lokottaravda Bahurutya Prajaptivda Caitika Sthaviravda Mahsaka Dharmaguptaka Kyapya Sarvstivda Vibhajyavda Theravda
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Doctrines
Forty-eight theses

The Samayabhedoparacanacakra of Vasumitra regards the Ekavyvahrikas, Gokulikas, and Lokottaravdins as being doctrinally indistinguishable.[7] According to Vasumitra, 48 theses were held in common by these three Mahsghika sects.[8] Of the 48 special theses attributed by the Samayabhedoparacanacakra to these sects, 20 points concern the supramundane nature of buddhas and bodhisattvas.[9]

Trascendent speech
The name of the Ekavyvahrikas refers to their doctrine that the Buddha speaks with a single and unified transcendent meaning.[10] They emphasized the transcendence of the Buddha, asserting that he was eternally enlightened and essentially non-physical. Just as the words of the Buddha were held to be spoken with one transcendent meaning, the Four Noble Truths were understood to be perfectly

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realized with one wisdom.[11]

Fundamentally pure mind

The Ekavyvahrikas held that sentient beings possessed an originally or fundamentally pure mind, but that it has been encumbered and obscured by suffering.[12] This conception of the nature of the mind as being fundamentally the same as that of the Buddha, has been identified with the Mahyna doctrines of Buddha-nature and the Buddha's Dharmakya, as well as compared favorably with doctrines in Mahyna stras such as the Lotus Stra and the Avatasaka Stra.[13]

References
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. ^ Baruah, Bibhuti. Buddhist Sects and Sectarianism. 2008. p. 48 ^ Baruah, Bibhuti. Buddhist Sects and Sectarianism. 2008. p. 19 ^ Warder, A.K. Indian Buddhism. 2000. p. 281 ^ Walser, Joseph. Ngrjuna in Context: Mahyna Buddhism and Early Indian Culture. 2005. pp. 50-51 ^ Walser, Joseph. Ngrjuna in Context: Mahyna Buddhism and Early Indian Culture. 2005. p. 51 ^ Sree Padma. Barber, Anthony W. Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra. 2008. p. 68. ^ Walser, Joseph. Ngrjuna in Context: Mahyna Buddhism and Early Indian Culture. 2005. p. 214 ^ Walser, Joseph. Ngrjuna in Context: Mahyna Buddhism and Early Indian Culture. 2005. p. 214 ^ Sree Padma. Barber, Anthony W. Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra. 2008. p. 56 ^ Sree Padma. Barber, Anthony W. Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra. 2008. p. 67. ^ Rockhill, William. The Life of Buddha And the Early History of His Order Derived from Tibetan. pp. 187-188 ^ Baruah, Bibhuti. Buddhist Sects and Sectarianism. 2008. p. 90 ^ Baruah, Bibhuti. Buddhist Sects and Sectarianism. 2008. p. 90

See also
Early Buddhist schools Nikaya Buddhism Schools of Buddhism Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ekavyvahrika&oldid=532727014" Categories: Nikaya schools Early Buddhist schools

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