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In 1932 Sylvain Lévi published one leaf of the Vinaya of the Mahāsāṃghikas which had been found by Hackin in Bāmiyān in 1930.1 In 1934 Rāhula Sāṃkrtyāyana photographed in the Źva-lu Ri-phug monastery2 many leaves of manuscripts belonging to the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya. The Chinese Tripiṭaka contains the following Vinaya texts of the Mahāsāṃghikas: Taishō no. 1425 Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya (vol. XXII, pp. 227–549a); no. 1426 Bhikṣu-prātimokṣa-sūtra (pp. 549a–556a); no. 1427 Bhikṣuṇí-prātimokṣa-sūtra (pp. 556a–566). The Vinaya consists of the following sections: (a) Bhikṣu-prāti-mokṣa-vibhaṅga (pp. 227a–412b); (b) Bhikṣu-prakínaka-vinaya (pp. 412b–499a); (c) Bhikṣu-abhisamācārika—dharma—s (pp. 499a–514a); (d) Bhikṣuṇí prātimokṣa-vibhaṇga (pp. 514a–544c); (e) Bhikṣuṇī-prakírṇaka (pp. 544c– 549a). The texts, photographed by R. Sāṅkṛtyāyana, have been edited in three separate publications. The Bhikṣu-prātimoksa-sūtra (44ff.) was published in 1956 by W. Pachow and Ramakanta Mishra.3 The Bhikṣu-abhisa-mācārika-dharma-s (50ff.) was published in 1969 by B. Jinananda.4 Roth’s edition of the Bhikṣuṇí-vinaya (80ff.) includes the Bhikṣuṇí-prakírṇaka and the uddānas of the Bhikṣu-prakírṇaka.5 The Bhikṣuni-vinaya consists of two parts: the Eight guru-dharma and the Bhiksuni-pratimoksa-vibhariga. The texts published by Roth correspond to the following sections of the Chinese version of the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya: 1. Eight guru-dharma — Taishō vol. XXII, pp. 471a25–476b8; 2. Bhikṣuṇí-prātimokṣa-vibhaṅga pp. 514a–544c; 3. Bhikṣuní-prakírṇaka — pp. 544c–549a;4. uddānas of the Bhikṣu-prakírnaka — cf. pp. 426b, 442b, 446c, 455b, 464b, 478b, 483b, 485c, 488b, 493c, 495b, 496c, 497b and 499a. In the Taishō edition the Vinaya texts of the Mahāsāmghikas occupy 340 pages. The 174 leaves photographed by R. Sāṅkṛtyāyana correspond to 63 pages, almost one-fifth.
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De Jong, J.W. (1974). Notes on the Bhikṣuṇī-Vinaya of the Mahāsāṃghikas. In: Cousins, L., Kunst, A., Norman, K.R. (eds) Buddhist Studies in Honour of I.B. Horner. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2242-2_8
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