Knowra Sarvastivada Sarvastivada Sarvastivada was an early Buddhist school whose distinctive doctrine held that dharmas exist across past, present, and future, though their temporal status changes.
Dharma (Buddhism) : A dharma is a basic phenomenon or factor used in Buddhist analyses of experience and reality. Sarvastivada’s claim concerns the existence of these phenomena across time.
Vasumitra : Vasumitra was a Buddhist Abhidharma thinker associated with an account of temporal difference through a dharma’s mode of activity. His explanation distinguishes past, present, and future without requiring wholly separate kinds of dharma.
Kashmir : Kashmir is a region in the northwestern Indian subcontinent with a long history of Buddhist scholarship. Kashmir became a major center of Sarvastivada learning and doctrinal systematization.
Vaibhāṣika : Vaibhāṣika is a Sarvastivada Abhidharma tradition grounded especially in the Mahāvibhāṣā. It became the most influential systematic expression of Kashmir Sarvastivada doctrine.
Abhidharma : Abhidharma is the systematic analysis of Buddhist teachings, experience, and mental and material phenomena. Sarvastivada developed its doctrine of dharmas through Abhidharma analysis.
Buddhadeva (Sarvastivada) : Buddhadeva was an Abhidharma teacher linked to an account of temporal difference through relations among dharmas. His relational account offered one explanation of how the same dharma is classified across time.
Gandhara : Gandhara was an ancient region spanning parts of present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, known for Buddhist institutions and art. Sarvastivada communities and texts flourished in this northwestern Buddhist region.
Sautrāntika : Sautrāntika was a Buddhist school that privileged the sutras and criticized aspects of Sarvastivada Abhidharma. Its arguments against the existence of past and future dharmas directly challenged Sarvastivada.
Three times (Buddhism) : The three times in Buddhist thought are past, present, and future, categories used to analyze conditioned phenomena. The school’s defining claim applies existence to all three temporal categories.
Dharmatrāta : Dharmatrāta was an Abhidharma teacher associated with explaining temporal change through differences in a dharma’s condition. His theory makes changing condition, rather than a new underlying entity, mark temporal transition.
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