Fourth Council
100 CE
Period of letter writing to Kings (Nagarjuna)
Criticism of Sarvastivadins
Promissory note of karma
Like Mahayana in some ways
Close with lay community
Jataka stories of past lives of Buddha
3 Vehicles
Future Buddhas lined up
(?) Use of sanskrit
Sauntranika school
Critical of realism
Did not accept Abhidharma as word of Buddha, only commentaries
Critical views flowed into Mahayana (product of mind)