A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism
The Sarvāstivādins formed one of the eighteen sects into which the Hīnayāna School (q.v.) had divided by the third century B.C.
Its Canon, though not as complete as that of the Theravāda (q.v.), has largely survived in Chinese translation, where the four Nikāyas of the Sutta Pitaka are known as Āgamas (q.v.). It was from this sect, and even more from a third of the Hīnayāna sects, the Mahāsanghikas (q.v.) that the doctrines of the Mahāyāna developed.
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