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This
is the second of the two great councils of Buddhist orders, occurring
about a 100 years of Buddha's death when the Mahasanghikas (the Great
Order) broke away from the traditional order on account of matters of
discipline as well as doctrine. Discarding the old order as `the lesser
vehicle'(Hinayana), they called their order `the bigger vehicle'(Mahayana).They
offered salvation to all and its scriptures claimed to represent the final
doctrines of the Buddha which had been revealed only to his spiritually
advanced followers. |
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