Sarvastivada

Early buddhism

Written sources

Pali Canon Agamas Gandhara

Cathedrals

1st Buddhist Cathedral 2nd Buddhist Cathedral 3rd Buddhist Cathedral 4th Buddhist Cathedral

Schools

Pre -ectant Buddhism └ Mahasanghika ├ Ekavjavaharika └ Locottaravada ├ Tea ├ Apara Shayla └ Uttara Shayla └ Gokulika ├ Bahusrutia ├ Prajnaptivada └ Chetyavada └ Sthaviravada ├ Sarvastivada ├ Waibhashika ├ Sautrantika └ Mulasarvastivada ├ Vibhajyavada ├ Theravada ├ Mahishasaka ├ Kashyapia ├ Dharmaguptaka └ Pudgalavada └ Watsiputria ├ Dharmottaria ├ Bhadraraiya ├ Sammatia └ Shannagarika

Vaibhashika (also sarvastivada , Skt. सर्वास्तिवादि , Chinese. 說 一切 有 部 ) - the philosophical school of Buddhism , ranked as Hinayana , currently has no direct followers, although its works are actively used in many Mahayana schools.

The name Vaibhashik comes from the treatise of Mahavibhash (The Great Commentary), written by the thinker Parshva (currently it is preserved only in the Chinese translation). Another name - sarvastivada (from the Sanskrit words sarva - "everything" and asti - "is"), due to the fact that its representatives taught that everything (that is, all dharmas , sarva dharma) is real; all dharmas (past, present and future) are real, and there is nothing more real than dharma. This school also claimed that dharmas have a real ontological status (dravi sat), while being also conditional units of the language for describing psychophysical experience, that is, again dharm (prajnapti sat).

Representatives of this school primarily engaged in the classification and description of dharmas in the context of the religious doctrine of Buddhism. They were also epistemological realists, that is, they not only recognized the real existence of the external world outside of the perceiving consciousness, but also affirmed its full adequacy to the world perceived by living beings and included in their consciousness as the object side of their experience.

The most important monument of this school is the Abhidharma Encyclopedia - Abhidharmakosha ( 5th century ), written by the great Buddhist thinker Vasubandhu .

Among the critics of the sarvastivada was also Nagarjuna , who categorically did not accept the idea of ​​such atomic elements as the basis of the observed phenomena and the theory of causality of vaibhashika.

In the Far East, the sarvastivada is represented by the Chinese school of jiuhe-tszun and the corresponding Japanese school of kusya- siu, focused on the study of Abhidharmakoshi , translated into Chinese by Xuanzan .