The early Buddhist schools are those schools into which the Buddhist monastic saṅgha split early in the history of Buddhism. The divisions were originally...

Early Buddhist texts (EBTs), early Buddhist literature or early Buddhist discourses are parallel texts shared by the early Buddhist schools. The most...

the major Buddhist divisions: Conservative Buddhism an alternative name for the early Buddhist schools. Early Buddhist schools the schools into which...

century BCE. There are early texts from various Buddhist schools, the largest collections are from the Theravāda and Sarvāstivāda schools, but there are also...

Hinayana, meaning the early Buddhist schools. Examples of these groups are pre-sectarian Buddhism and the early Buddhist schools. Some scholars exclude...

early Buddhist schools, these schools began to develop their own textual collections, which were termed Tripiṭakas (Triple Baskets). Many early Tripiṭakas...

thinkers of Buddhist schools and Hindu or Jaina philosophers. These elaborations and disputes gave rise to various early Buddhist schools of Abhidharma...

authority and prestige of specific schools. All six of the surviving Vinaya sources of various early Buddhist schools contain accounts, in whole or in part...

well as some Buddhists of other sects. In Buddhism, the views on vegetarianism vary between different schools of thought. The Mahayana schools generally...

emptiness. Many of the early Buddhist schools featured śūnyatā as an important part of their teachings. The Sarvastivadin school's Abhidharma texts like...