[Buddha-l] Re: Theravada & Sarvastivada

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 09:08 +1000, Kate wrote:

> I was wondering if someone could help with another question, please.  Is
> Theravada an offshoot of Sarvastivada (or vice versa) or are they two
> unrelated non-Mahayana schools?

They are both non-Mahayana canonical schools, but they had somewhat
different canons. It seems most likely that neither is an offshoot of
the other, but both are offshoots of what some scholars call primitive
Buddhism.

-- 
Richard Hayes