Mulasarvastivada, Mūlasarvāstivāda: 7 definitions
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General definition (in Buddhism)
It was a branch of the Sarvastivadin sect, which asserted the doctrine of the reality of things. It held that all is produced by causative action, and everything is dynamic, not static. Mulasavastivada is a school of reality of all phenomena, one of the early Hinayana sects, said to have been formed, about 300 years after the Nirvana of Shakyamuni. Later it subdivided into five: * Mulasarvastivadah * Dharmaguptah * Kasyapiyah * Mahisasakah * Vatsiputriyah (most influential)Mulasarvastivada - a branch of the Sarvastivadin sect, which asserted the doctrine of the reality of things. It held that all is produced by causative action, and everything is dynamic, not static. Mulasavastivada is a school of reality of all phenomena, one of the early Hinayana sects, said to have been formed, about 300 years after the Nirvana of Shakyamuni. Later it subdivided into five:
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Sanskrit dictionary
Mūlasarvāstivāda (मूलसर्वास्तिवाद).—pl., name of a school: Mahāvyutpatti 9078.
Mūlasarvāstivāda (मूलसर्वास्तिवाद):—[=mūla-sarvāsti-vāda] [from mūla > mūl] m. [plural] Name of a Buddhist school, [Buddhist literature]
Mūlasarvāstivāda (मूलसर्वास्तिवाद):—[(mūla + sa)] m. pl. Name einer buddhistischen Schule [Burnouf 466.] [Lot. de Lassen’s Anthologie b. l. 357.] [WASSILJEW 234. 267.] vādin [89.]
Mūlasarvāstivāda (मूलसर्वास्तिवाद):—und vādin m. Pl. eine best. buddhistische Schule.
Mūlasarvāstivāda (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 一切有根本 [yī qiè yǒu gēn běn]: “Mūla-sarvāstivāda” [Sanskrit school name].
2) 根本說一切有部 [gēn běn shuō yī qiè yǒu bù]: “Mūla-sarvāstivāda” [Sanskrit school name]; Alternatively: “gZhi thams cad yod par smra ba”; “gZhi thams cad yod par smra ba'i sde” [Tibetan school name].
Note: mūlasarvāstivāda can be alternatively written as: mūla-sarvāstivāda.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Sarvastivada, Vada, Mula, Vata.
Starts with: Mulasarvastivadavinaya.
Full-text (+1313): Mulasarvastivadavinaya, Aryamulasarvastivada, Yi qie you gen ben, Madhyandina, Mu luo, Mandhata, Jivaka, Parivasika, Cancu, Kamaraka, Cinta, Adhovana, Rajasamyuktakanipata, Shramanoddeshaka, Kantha, Toyika, Vipushpayati, Mrigara, Samanusarati, Abhaishajya.
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