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Buddhist texts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Paradoxically the text most closely associated with the vinaya, and the most frequently used portion of it, the Pratimoksha, is not in fact a canonical text at all. |
 | | Mahīshāsika, Kāshyapīya, and Dharmagupta, originally were in Sanskrit, but only survive in Chinese translation. |
 | | The Mahāvastu compiled by the Lokottaravadin sub-school of the Mahāsānghika was originally the preamble to their vinaya that became detached, hence, rather than dealing with the rules themselves, it takes the form of an extended biography of the Buddha which it describes in terms of his progression through ten bhumis, or stages. |
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