The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2624 page)

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(Skt., followers of V
ts
putra). A school of early Buddhism. According to tradition V
ts
putra was a Mah
sa
ghika who claimed to have supernaturally received an
Abhidharmic
text in nine sections from
riputra
and
R
hula
. This is known as the
riputra-Abhidharma
. V
ts
putra probably lived in the early 3rd cent. BCE in Ko
ala (E. India) and it seems that the V

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