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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Vibhajyavada
		Vibhajyavada (Pali: Vibhajjavada), is an umbrella classification for Buddhist denominations that promote analysis as a primary tool for developing insight.
		The Vibhajyavada school says that the first step to insight has to be achieved by the aspirant's experience, critical investigation, and reasoning instead of by blind faith.
		During the Third Buddhist Council, all orthodox schools, which were sub-divisions of Sthaviravada (Sanskrit) that had split during the reign of Emperor Asoka were regrouped into this new school.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vibhajyavada (809 words)

	Vibhajyavada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vibhajyavada (Pali: Vibhajjavada), is an umbrella classification for Buddhist denominations that promote analysis as a primary tool for developing insight.
		The Vibhajyavada school says that the first step to insight has to be achieved by the aspirant's experience, critical investigation, and reasoning instead of by blind faith.
		This school was introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda, son of Emperor Asoka, who brought with him the Pali Canon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vibhajyavada (166 words)

	Congregationalism
		Vibhajyavada thought was assimilated by the Theravada school which became established in Sri Lanka.
		The Vibhajyavadin school was strong in the south of India where it survived until the seventeenth century.
		It is no longer extant in its earliest form although the Theravada, which thrives in Sri Lanka and South-East Asia, traces its history through the Vibhajyavada school.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/budsm/dhamma/VIBHAJYAVADA.html (400 words)

	Vibhajyavada -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vibhajyavada ((An ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism) Pali: Vibhajjavada), is an umbrella
		The word vibhajyavada literally means "the teaching of
		The Vibhajyavada school says that the first step to insight has
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vibhajyavada.htm (216 words)

	Appendix F: Anekanta
		Originally an ethical mode of speech, being concerned with what one ought or ought not to speak, it assumed an ontological role in the Ardhamagadhi Agamas, through three stages of development, viz.
		vibhajyavada (the method of answering a question by dividing the issues), nayavada (the method of defining the framework of reference), and syadvada (the prefixing of the particle syat, meaning "in a certain reference", to a preposition, indicative of its conditional character).
		Vibhajyavada which is perhaps the earliest phase of the doctrine is found mentioned in the Sutrakrtanga (1.14.22) where a monk is asked to explain things through the principle of division of issues (vibhajjavayam ca viyagarejja).
	www.jainworld.com /jainbooks/firstep-2/anekanta-1.htm (2398 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Ashoka (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He made Vibhajyavada Buddhism his state religion around 260 BC.
		He propagated the Vibhajyavada school of Buddhism and preached it within his domain and worldwide from about 250 BC.
		Emperor Ashoka undoubtedly has to be credited with the first serious attempt to develop a Buddhist polity.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Ashoka (2640 words)

	Contribution to Culture
		The Buddhist also have their doctrine of Vibhajyavada or `conditional expressions', which means that they discard one-sided view (ekansavada).
		However, the Buddhists believed in Vibhajyavada to a limited extent, where as the Jainas believe it to the full extent, so that it was finally developed into the Theory of Non-absolutism (Anekantavada).
		In Buddhism, Vibhajya means division and Vibhajya Vyakarniya means answering a question by diving.
	www.jainworld.com /contribution/conculture.htm (3243 words)

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		Ajneyavada or Agnosticism of Sanjaya shows reconciliatory spirit through his Fourfold or Fivefold formula of denial, so the Vibhajyavada or the Critical method of Investigation of Buddha is contrasted with Madhyampratipada which included Buddha to "treat prevalent opinions with all due consideration." Nagarjuna's Dialecties of Fourfold Antinomies (chatuskoti) resembles Anekanta approach.
		The Buddhist also have their doctrine of Vibhajyavada or `conditional expressions', which means that they discard onesided view (ekansavada).
		However, the Buddhists believed in Vibhajyavada to a limited extent, where as the Jainas believe it to the full extent, so that it was finally developed into the Theory of Nonabsolutism (Anekantavada).
	www.ibiblio.org /jainism/database/BOOK/ramjees.doc (21034 words)

	Mahavira and Jainism by Sanderson Beck
		However, in disregarding speculative questions he did attempt to focus the attention of his many followers on the attainment and preservation of mental equanimity.
		Sanjaya may have prepared the way for Mahavira's doctrine of antinomies (syadvada) and the Buddha's method of critical investigation (vibhajyavada), for they both found that there could be no final answers to some of the difficult questions of cosmology, ontology, theology, and eschatology.
		The leader of the Ajivaka sect at this time, Mankhali Gosala, became closely associated with Mahavira.
	www.san.beck.org /EC8-Mahavira.html (5519 words)

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		However, in disregarding speculative questions he did attempt to focus the attention of his many followers on the attainment and preservation of mental equanimity.
		Sanjaya may have prepared the way for Mahavira's doctrine of antinomies (syadvada) and the Buddha's method of critical investigation (vibhajyavada), for they both found that there could be no final answers to some of the difficult questions of cosmology, ontology, theology, and eschatology.
		The leader of the Ajivaka sect at this time, Mankhali Gosala, became closely associated with Mahavira.
	jainsamaj.org /literature/mah_his.htm (1229 words)

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