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Theories Concerning the Skandhaka: An Appraisal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Charles S. Prebish
Charles S. Prebish
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Pennsylvania State University
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The Earliest Vinaya and the Beginnings of Buddhist Literature. By Erich Frauwallner. Volume VIII of Serie Orientate Roma. Edited by Giuseppe Tucci. Rome: Institute per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1956.

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Review Articles
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , August 1973 , pp. 669 - 678
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973

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References

1Frauwallner, Erich, The Earliest Vinaya and the Beginnings of Buddhist Literature [Rome: Instituto aper il Medio ed Oriente, Estremo, 1956], p. 4.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., pp. 5–6. These are direct quotations taken out of context and rearranged by me for illustra tive presentation.

3 This material is assembled on pp. 7–12 of Frauwallner, The Earliest Vinaya.

4 For example: Hsüan-tsang's study of the Abhidharma of the Mahāsāmpghika, Hsüan-tsang's refercnce to the texts of the Mahāsārnghikas and Sāmmatīyas, and the mention only of Vatsīputriya Sāmmatrīya when doctrinal theories are discussed.

5 Frauwallner, The Earliest Vinaya, p. 10.

6See:Pachow, W. and Mishra, Ramakanta [edd.], “The Prātimoksa Sūtra of the Mahāsāṃghikas,” Journal of the Gaṅgānāth Jhā Research Institute, X, 1–4Google Scholar [Novembcr-February-May-August, 1952–1953], Appendix 1–48, and also Roth, Gustav, “Bhikṣuṇīvinaya and Bhikṣu-Prakīrṇaka and Notes on the Language,” Journal of the Bihar Research Society, LII, 1–4 [January-December, 1966], 29–51.Google Scholar

7 Frauwallner, The Earliest Vinaya, p. 12.

8For an account of the missions, see, for example: Geiger, Wilhelm [tr.], The Mahāvamsa, or the Great Chronicle of Ceylon [reprint; London: Luzac & Company, Ltd. (for P.T.S.), 1964], pp. 82–87 [Chapter XII]. The non-critical missions have been excluded in the chart. For Frauwallner's conclusions, see: The Earliest Vinaya, pp. 13–23.Google Scholar

9 Frauwallner, The Earliest Vinaya, pp. 18–19.

10 Ibid., p. 27.

11 Ibid., p. 38.

12 Ibid., p. 41.

13 Ibid.

14 Ibid., p. 65.

15Oldenberg, Hermann [ed.], The Vinaya Pitakam [5 vols., reprint; London: Luzac & Company, Ltd. (for P.T.S.), 1964], I, p. xxviii.Google Scholar

16Finot, Louis, “Mahāparinibbāna-sutta and Cul-lavagga,” Indian Historical Quarterly, VIII, 2 [June, 1932], 241–246.Google Scholar

17 Frauwallner, The Earliest Vinaya, p. 45. The brackets are mine.

18 Ibid., p. 49.

19 Ibid., p . 61.

20In Journal Asiatique, Série XI, Tome V [Janvier-Février, 1915], 401–447.Google Scholar

21 Frauwallner, The Earliest Vinaya, p. 62.

22 Ibid., pp. 64–65.

23 Ibid., p. 135.

24 Ibid., p. 134.

25 Ibid., pp. 136–144.

26 The whole argument is recounted on pp. 146–148 of Frauwallner, The Earliest Vinaya.

27 Ibid., p. 147. We are told that the Asura Sūtra is .Aiiguttara Nikāya VIII, 19, corresponding to Madhyamāgama 35 and also Ekottarikāgama 42, 4.

28 Ibid., p. 148.

29 Ibid., p. 149 [and n. 2]. Frauwallner does note one exception in the naming of the sūtra series. The Sarvāstivādins mention the Pārāyana and Satyadarśa Sūtras. For other early texts, Frauwallner refers the reader to Sylvain Lévi's “Sur la récitation primitive des textes bouddhiques,” pp.412 ff.

30Lamotte, Étienne, Histoire du Bouddhisme Indien des origines à l'ère àaka [Louvain: Publication Universitaires, 1958], p. 195.Google Scholar