Buddha’s Conversions vs. Devadatta’s Schisms: From the First Arhant Kauṇḍinya to the Questions of Upālin

A New Edition of the Gilgit-manuscripts of the Saṃghabhedavastu in Mūlasarvāstivāda-Vinaya II, with Introduction and Concordance

Meide Xu

• Publisher: Shaker
• eBook ISBN:
  9783819100505
• Year: 2025

This present edition is based on the Gilgit Sanskrit manuscripts (fo. 424-523) and Gnoli's editio princeps of Sa?ghabhedavastu II published in 1978. Different readings are shown in different symbols and are dealt with in the footnotes. There is a concordance of the Chinese translation by Yijing ?.? of Sa?ghabhedavastu accomplished in the beginning of the 8th Century. Some readings in the ?r?ma?yaphala-s?tra have been improved based on the Gilgit Sanskrit manuscripts of Pravrajy?vastu of M?lasarv?stiv?da-Vinaya. The cataloge numbers and the editions of the fragments found in Turfan edited by Waldschmidt et al. are noted briefly in the footnotes with reference to the volumes and the page numbers of Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden (SHT).

Table of contents

• 1.Uddāna
• 2.The Story of Kauṇḍinya
• 3.Yaśodharā brings forth a son
• 4. Yaśodharā seeks to bring the Buddha back to her
• 5. Yaśodharā attempts to commit suicide
• 6. Conversion of Yaśodharā
• 7.The story of Madhuvāsiṣṭha
• 8. The story of a royal barber (Upālin)
• 9. Untrue announcement of the death of the Buddha
• 10.Ānanda's conversion
• 11. Ānanda follows the Buddha and makes an exhibit
• 12. The story of rice, two partridges and sugar-ca
• 13.The Buddha chooses Ānanda as his attendant
• 15. Devadatta strives to win magical powers
• 16. Daśabalakāśyapa teaches Devadatta the way to o
• 17. Devadatta seduces the prince Ajātaśatru
• 18.The gifts and honours of Ajātaśatru infatuate Deva
• 19. Maudgalyāyana informs the Buddha that Devadatt
• 20. Devadatta visits the Buddha and departs indign
• 21. The sermon on the five Teachers
• 22. Devadatta decides to bring about schism in the
• 23. The behaviour of Devadatta is discussed in the
• 24. The behaviour of the four monk-followers of De
• 25. Devadatta gets stronger in his resolution to b
• 26. Devadatta loses his magical powers
• 27. The Buddha goes to Gayā
• 28. The Buddha in Rājagṛha
• 29. The Buddha grows ill
• 30.The sickness of the Buddha and the Buddha heals De
• 31. The story of Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa
• 32. Ajātaśatru seeks to take his father’s, i.e. th
• 33.The Buddha sends Maudgalyāyana to Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa
• 34. Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa fills his bowl with food of ext
• 35. The king Bimbisāra desires to see Śroṇakoṭīviṃ
• 36. Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa goes to Rājagṛha to visit Bimbi
• 37.The Buddha converts Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa
• 38. Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa’s severe penances and the examp
• 39. Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa follows the advice of the Buddh
• 40. The discourse of Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa
• 41. Rājagṛha's inhabinants begin to murmur against
• 42. The king Bimbisāra makes exceeding grants to A
• 43. Ajātaśatru casts his father in prison, there t
• 44.The Buddha sends Maudgalyāyana to visit and comfor
• 45.The tardy repentance of Ajātaśatru and the death o
• 46. The distress of Ajātaśatru at the death of Bim
• 47. Devadatta gilds himself with gold
• 48. Devadatta gets the sign of a wheel imprinted i
• 49. Devadatta calls a skilled master-mechanic and
• 50. The workmen refuse to kill the Buddha and are
• 51.Devadatta hurls a stone at the Buddha with the cat
• 52.The yakṣa Kumbhīra sacrifices his life in trying t
• 53.Jīvaka prescribes a very rare substance in order t
• 54. The hemorrhage does not stop and Jīvaka prescr
• 55. Daśabalakāśyapa stops the hemorrhage
• 56.The disappointment of Devadatta
• 57. Devadatta's attempt to kill the Buddha by mean
• 58. The elephant Dhanapālaka follows submissively
• 59. The five causes of the division of the congreg
• 60.Famine in Rājagṛha, division of the congregation a
• 61.Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana visit the Buddha and p
• 62.The sermon on four merituous men
• 63.Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana visit Devadatta and ex
• 64.Many misled monks are led back to the Buddha and r
• 65. Devadatta gets angry with Kokālika and Khaṇḍad
• 66. The fruit of monachal life in the visible worl
• 67.Devadatta, no more admitted into the palace, struc
• 68.Devadatta is gained over the nihilistic doctrine o
• 69.The Buddha blames Devadatta
• 70.The new rules of Devadatta
• 71. Devadatta is thrown into a pond
• 72. Devadatta fails in his attempts to become the
• 73.The Buddha foretells that Devadatta will become a
• 74.Śāriputra & Maudgalyāyana descend to hell to visit
• 75.Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana visit in hell the foll
• 76.The questions of Upālin
• A concordance of the SHT and the SBV II
• A concordance of the Sanskrit and Chinese SBV II
• ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA (SBV I)