The Lokottaravâdins were an ancient sect, precursors of the Mahayana rather than a branch of it, and much of the Mahâvastu is parallel to the Pali Canon and may have been composed a century or two before our era.
According to a common tradition Kanishka played for the Church of the Great Vehicle much the same part as Asoka for the Theravâdins and summoned a Council which wrote commentaries on the Tripitaka.
But a code of discipline was necessary for large monasteries and the code of the Sarvâstivâdins enjoyed general esteem in Central Asia and China.
It is loosely constructed: considerable portions of it seem to be identical with the Vinaya of the Sarvâstivâdins and others with passages in the works of Aśvaghosha.
But the association of the Sarvâstivâdins with Mahayanists is clear from the council of Kanishka onwards.
It is connected with the Buddhist sect called Sarvâstivâdins and in this case the circumstances seem clear.
Many eminent Buddhists began by being Sarvâstivâdins and became Mahayanists, their earlier belief being regarded as preliminary rather than erroneous.
The Lokottaravâdins mentioned by Hsüan Chuang as existing at Bamiyan belonged to it.
Probably all the eighteen schools had separate Vinayas, and to some extent they had different editions of the other Pitakas, for the Sarvâstivâdins had an Abhidharma of their own.
The Sarvâstivâdins were found, as their history would lead us to expect, chiefly in the north and beyond the frontiers of India proper.
Three Hinayanist schools are frequently mentioned, the Sthaviras, Sarvâstivâdins and Sammitîyas.
The nurse insists, and dins into her ears, That seldom such a chance occurs below; And makes her fix another day to see That dog, when fewer eyes on her shall be.
XXXIX "The ravening kite so swoops and plunders, when Hovering above the shelterd yard, she spies A helpless chicken near unwatchful hen, Who vainly dins the thief with after cries.
There is no doubt of the connection between Kashmir and the Sarvâstivâdins nor anything improbable in the supposition that the first missionary activity was in the direction of Muttra and Kashmir.
Everything indicates and nothing discredits the conclusion that this canon of the Vibhajjavâdins was substantially fixed in the time of Asoka, so far as the Vinaya and Sutta Pitakas are concerned.
In virtue of the first doctrine European writers often speak of the Sarvâstivâdins as realists but their peculiar view concerned not so much the question of objective reality as the difference between being and becoming.
The scriptures published by the Pali Text Society represent the canon of the ancient sect called Vibhajjavâdins and the particular recension of it used at the monastery in Anuradhapura called Mahâvihâra.
Footnote 649: See Takakusu on the Abhidharma literature of the Sarvâstivâdins in the Journ.
The Abhidhamma of the Sarvâstivâdins was entirely different.
Something is known of the Vinaya of the Sarvâstivâdins existing in a Chinese translation and in fragments of the Sanskrit original found in Central Asia.
This is natural, for it is pretty obvious that many found the argumentative psychology of the Theravâdins arid and wearisome.
Candrakirtti in replying to this says that with s'ûnyavâdins the truth is absolute silence.
The Vijñânavâdins could not admit the existence of such a reality, but yet their doctrines led them to it.
It does not seem however that the S'ûnyavâdins could produce any great writers after Candrakîrtti.
Again we can have a glimpse of the respective positions of the Vâtsiputtrîyas and the Sarvâstivâdins as represented by Vasubandhu if we attend to the discussion on the subject of the existence of soul in Abhidharmakos'a.
The statement is remarkable, for he also tells us that the Sarvâstivâdins were the predominant sect in the Malay Archipelago and flourished in southern China.
The Vinaya of the Mûlasarvâstivâdins and similar texts speak of offering flowers to a tooth of the Buddha.
Footnote 777: In support of this it may be mentioned that Fa-Hsien says that at the time of his visit to India the Vinaya of the Sarvâstivâdins was preserved orally and not committed to writing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
