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Sautrāntika
Sautrāntika. An early school whose origins and tenets are obscure. Vasumitra mentions a school called the Saṃkrāntikas, ascribing to it specific teachings concerning rebirth (saṃkrānti) and no other teachings. Unfortunately, Hsüan-tsang mistakenly translated this as Sautrāntika, although the Tibetan translation and the other two Chinese translations all render it correctly. Other Chinese references to the Sautrāntikas are probably the result of the same error. Apart from this, no Sarvāstivādin source prior to the 6th century ce ever lists the Sautrāntikas as a school (nikāya). One explanation of the origins of the name Sautrāntika may lie in the fact that certain Sarvāstivādin monasteries that had accepted Mahāyāna sūtras and teachings developed their own Abhidharma system, which was referred to as Dārṣṭāntika or Sautrāntika. They can thus be regarded as Mahāyānists ‘doing Abhidharma’. Later, after the Mahāyāna had developed its own Abhidharma, the Sautrāntika system became redundant and the earlier situation was no longer understood. It thus would appear, on this account, that the Sautrāntikas were never a separate school and should not be counted among the Eighteen Schools of Early Buddhism. According to other authorities however, a cross-textual study of surviving Āgamas and Vinayas shows that the Sautrāntika, Mūla-Sarvāstivāda and Gandhāri Sarvāstivāda are identical, and the Dārṣṭāntika is an earlier alternative name.
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DAMIEN KEOWN. "Sautrāntika." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. DAMIEN KEOWN. "Sautrāntika." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O108-Sautrntika.html DAMIEN KEOWN. "Sautrāntika." A Dictionary of Buddhism. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O108-Sautrntika.html |
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Sautrāntikas
Sautrāntikas. Members of a Buddhist school seceding from the Sarvāstivādins (c.200 CE) on the grounds that only sūtra and not abhidharma is the authoritative word of the Buddha—hence their name, Sautrāntika (sūtrānta + ika). Their doctrines anticipated developments in the Vijñāpti-mātra school. In China, they were continued by Ch'eng-shih (Jap., Jōjitsu), the Sattyasiddhi school.
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JOHN BOWKER. "Sautrāntikas." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Sautrāntikas." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Sautrntikas.html JOHN BOWKER. "Sautrāntikas." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Sautrntikas.html |
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