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The
Second Buddhist council
took place approximately one hundred years after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa. Virtually all scholars agree that the second council was a historical event.
[1]
Traditions regarding the Second Council are confusing and ambiguous, but it is agreed that the overall result was the first schism in the Saṃgha, between the Sthaviras and the Mahāsāṃghikas, although it is not agreed upon by all what the cause of this split was.
Contents
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1 Modern scholarship
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2 Theravadin account
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3 See also
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4 References
Modern scholarship
According to the Theravadin account of the Second Council, it occurred in Vaiśālī, and was held over ten points which amounted to minor infringements of the Vinaya, such as handling money and eating after midday.
[3]
The council was convened, and an elder rendered a verdict condemning the ten points, after which the council was closed.
[4]
According to this account, some 35 years later at Pāṭaliputra, there was another meeting over five points held by a figure named Mahādeva.
[5]
These five points were essentially regarding doctrines of the fallibility and imperfection of arhats, which were opposed by some.
[6]
In this account, the majority (Mahāsaṃgha) sided with Mahādeva, and the minority (Sthaviras) were opposed to it, thus causing a split in the Saṃgha.
[7]
However, the
Samayabhedoparacanacakra
records that Mahādeva was a completely different figure who was the founder of the Caitika sect over 100 years later.
[8][9]
Some scholars have concluded that an association of "Mahādeva" with the first schism was a later sectarian interpolation.
[10]
Paul Williams and Jan Nattier write, "Mahādeva has nothing to do with the primary schism between the Mahāsāṃghikas and Sthaviras, emerging in a historical period considerably later than perviously supposed, and taking his place in the sectarian movement by instigating an internal schism within the already existing Mahāsāṃghika school."
[11]
Under the influence of materials from the Theravāda school, some modern historians have tended to see the Mahāsāṃghikas as a lax, breakaway group. However, the account by the Mahāsāṃghika school itself saw the Sthaviras as being the breakaway group which was attempting to modify the original Vinaya.
[12]
Skilton has suggested that the problems of contradictory accounts are solved by the Mahāsāṃghika
Śariputraparipṛcchā
, which is the earliest surviving account of the schism.
[13]
In this account, the council was convened at Pāṭaliputra over matters of vinaya, and it is explained that the schism resulted from the majority (Mahāsaṃgha) refusing to accept the addition of rules to the Vinaya by the minority (Sthaviras).
[14]
Regarding this matter, L.S. Cousins writes, "The Mahāsāṃghikas were essentially a conservative party resisting a reformist attempt to tighten discipline. The likelihood is that they were initially a larger body, representing the mass of the community, the
mahāsaṃga
."
[15]
The
Śariputraparipṛcchā
contains an account in which an old monk rearranges and augments the traditional Vinaya, consequently causing dissention among the monks that required the king's arbitration and eventually precipitating the first schism.
[16]
Scholars have generally agreed that the matter of dispute was indeed a matter of vinaya, and have noted that the account of the Mahāsāṃghikas is bolstered by the vinaya texts themselves, as vinayas associated with the Sthaviras do contain more rules than those of the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya.
[17]
For example, the Mahāsāṃghika Prātimokṣa has 67 rules in the Śaikṣa-dharma section, while the Sthavira version has 75 rules.
[18]
A host of scholars have concurred that the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya is the most ancient.
[19]
This agrees well with the views of the Chinese monk Faxian, who travelled to India in order to procure the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya, which was regarded as the original.
[20]
Modern scholarship is generally in agreement that the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya is the oldest.
[21]
According to Andrew Skilton, future scholars may determine that a study of the Mahāsāṃghika school will contribute to a better understanding of the early Dharma-Vinaya than the Theravāda school.
[22]
Theravadin account
According to the traditional Theravadin account, the dispute arose over the 'Ten Points.' This is a reference to claims of some monks breaking ten rules, some of which were considered major. The specific ten points were:
1.
Storing salt in a horn.
2.
Eating after midday.
3.
Eating once and then going again to a village for alms.
4.
Holding the Uposatha Ceremony with monks dwelling in the same locality.
5.
Carrying out official acts when the assembly was incomplete.
6.
Following a certain practice because it was done by one's tutor or teacher.
7.
Eating sour milk after one had his midday meal.
8.
Consuming strong drink before it had been fermented.
9.
Using a rug which was not the proper size.
10.
Using gold and silver.
The key issue was the use of 'gold and silver', which is an Indic idiom that includes any kind of money. The monks of Vesali had taken to wandering for alms with the specific goal of collecting money, to which the visiting monk Yasa objected. Some of the other points are also important, for example point 6, which would allow monks to not follow the Vinaya on any point which their teacher did not follow or practice.
This behaviour was noted, became an issue and caused a major controversy. The monastic Sangha is structured so that all actions and decisions must be unanimously agreed upon through consensus. Since the monks accused of breaking these ten rules refused to be reprimanded or acknowledge fault, the Sangha was unable to resolve this dispute in any other way than by convening the
Second Buddhist Council
.
Some of the
Ten Points
were against minor (dukkata or sekhiya) rules. Before the Buddha's Parinibbāna he told Ven. Ananda that the community may (unanimously) relinquish the minor rules of theVinaya but at the
First Buddhist Council
there was uncertainty about which rules he was referring to and it was unanimously decided to keep the Vinaya as it was during the Buddha's lifetime. However, 100 years later some monks felt that certain rules could be relaxed.
The Second Buddhist Council made the unanimous decision not to relax any of the rules, and censured the behaviour of the monks who were accused of violating the
ten points
.
References
1.
^
"Buddhist council." Encyclopædia Britannica. Ultimate Reference Suite. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2008.
2.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 47
3.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 47
4.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 47
5.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 47
6.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 47
7.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 47
8.
^
Bhikku Sujato.
Sects & Sectarianism: The Origins of Buddhist Schools.
2006. p. 78
9.
^
Walser, Joseph.
Nāgārjuna in Context: Mahāyāna Buddhism and Early Indian Culture.
2005. pp. 49-50
10.
^
Walser, Joseph.
Nāgārjuna in Context: Mahāyāna Buddhism and Early Indian Culture.
2005. p. 50
11.
^
Williams, Jane, and Williams, Paul.
Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, Volume 2.
2005. p. 188
12.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 64
13.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 48
14.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 48
15.
^
Williams, Jane, and Williams, Paul.
Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, Volume 2.
2005. p. 190
16.
^
Williams, Jane, and Williams, Paul.
Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, Volume 2.
2005. p. 189
17.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 48
18.
^
Williams, Jane, and Williams, Paul.
Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, Volume 2.
2005. p. 190
19.
^
Williams, Jane, and Williams, Paul.
Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, Volume 2.
2005. p. 189
20.
^
Williams, Jane, and Williams, Paul.
Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, Volume 2.
2005. p. 189
21.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 48
22.
^
Skilton, Andrew.
A Concise History of Buddhism.
2004. p. 64
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