Mulasarvastivada, Mūlasarvāstivāda: 6 definitions
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General definition (in Buddhism)
Source: Buddhist Door: GlossaryIt 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) Source: SgForums: BuddhismMulasarvastivada - 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
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryMūlasarvāstivāda (मूलसर्वास्तिवाद).—pl., name of a school: Mahāvyutpatti 9078.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMūlasarvāstivāda (मूलसर्वास्तिवाद):—[=mūla-sarvāsti-vāda] [from mūla > mūl] m. [plural] Name of a Buddhist school, [Buddhist literature]
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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.
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Full-text: Second Buddhist Council, Katyayana, Sarvastivada, Pratimoksha, Svapnadhyaya, Kanyalakshana, Panilekha, Sthavira, Vakkhali, Uttara.
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