[Buddha-l] Back to the core values? -- and origins

[curt]

Christopher Fynn wrote:
>
> AFAIK the earliest known physical texts seem to be some of the 
> Gāndhārī manuscripts from Afghanistan written in Kharoṣṭhī script....

So the Buddha must have been a Sarvastivadin, then? 
(http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/s_scripts.htm)

This is also right about where and when the earliest surviving Buddha 
images are, no?

- Curt