Buddhist Councils – Meghalaya PCS Free Notes

I Buddhist Council		500 BC at	Ajatsataru .	Record the Buddha’s sayings (sutra) and codify
		Rajgaha	Presided by	monastic rules (vinaya). Rajgaha is today’s
			Mahakasyapa	Rajgir
II Buddhist Council		383 BC at	Kalasoka	The conservative schools insisted on monastic
		Vaishali		rules (vinaya). The secessionist Mahasangikas
				argued for more relaxed monastic
				rules.Rejection of the Mahasanghikas
III Buddhist Council		250 BC	Ashoka..	Purpose was to reconcile the different schools of
		Pataliputra		Buddhism. Presided by Moggaliputta Tissa
IV Buddhist Council		100 AD	Kanishka	Division into Hinayana & Mahayana. Theravada
	Join Our Telegram Channel width="4">	Kashmir	Presided by	Subscribe on YouTube width="325">Buddhism does not recognize the authenticity of
			Vasumitra &	this council, and it is sometimes called the
			Asvaghosha	“council of heretical monks”.
V Buddhist Council		1871	King Mindon	recite all the teachings of the Buddha and
		Myanmar		examine them in minute detail to see if any of
				them had been altered
VI Buddhist Council		1954	P.M. U Nu
		Yangoon

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