First Council
After Buddha's death
Direction to take?
Define Precepts
Which version of teachings?
Purana = "I prefer to remember teachings as I heard them myself"
Second Council
+100 years after death
Disciplinary review of monks breaking Precepts
Start of multiple schools
Third Council
+150-200 years after Second Council
18 different schools
Some belief in Pudgala
Vibhajyavadins (analytical approach)
Asoka sent missionaries to Sri Lanka
Sarvastivadins (realist approach)
Declared unorthodox, migrated to Kasmir
pudgala = personality
karma = effects of actions on next life
"School censored at a council became a popular school"