Mahāsāṃghikas initially flourished in the region around Magadha, the Lokottaravādins are known to have flourished in the Northwest India. The 6th century...

Buddhist tradition, and early biographies such as the Buddhacarita, the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu, the Sarvāstivādin Lalitavistara Sūtra, give different accounts...

compilation, and in this sutra, there are many elements in common with the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu. There are also images of Amitābha Buddha with the bodhisattvas...

of the marks of a great person. The Mahāvastu of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins presents various ideas regarding the school's conception of the bodhisattva...

("Temporal Eternalists"), the Dharmaguptakas ("Preservers of Dharma"), Lokottaravādins ("Transcendentalists"), the Prajñaptivādins ("Conceptualists"), the...

biographies of the Buddha. Buddha biographies include the Mahāvastu of the Lokottaravadin school, the northern tradition's Lalitavistara Sūtra, the Theravada...

Mahāsāṃghikas also split into various sub groups. One of these were the Lokottaravādins (Transcendentalists), so called because of their doctrine which saw...

sources as well, such as the Sarvāstivādin Lalitavistara Sūtra and the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu. Translation Bhikkhu Bodhi (2000), Samyutta Nikaya, SN 56...

allowed the construction of more vihāras. It was during their rule that Lokottaravādins erected the two Buddhas of Bamiyan. During the second half of the third...

Devadatta as a villain, as well as similar portrayals that exist in the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu. The Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya is extant in the Chinese Buddhist...

Buddhacarita by Aśvaghoṣa (c. 80 – c. 150 CE), the Mahāvastu from the Lokottaravādins (1st century CE), the Lalitavistara from the Sarvāstivādins (1st century...

Vincent (2012), "The Mahāvastu and the Vinayapiṭaka of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins" (PDF), Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced...

sect during the reign of Aśoka. Tāranātha viewed the Ekavyāvahārikas, Lokottaravādins, and Gokulikas as being essentially the same. He even viewed Ekavyāvahārika...