General Studies Question 273
Question: With reference to the religious history of India, consider the following statements:
Sautrāntika and Śākya were the sects of Jainism. Sarvastivadin held that the constituents of phenomena were not wholly momentary, but existed in a latent form for a moment. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Options:
A) Only one
B) Only two
C) Both one and two
D) Neither 1 nor 2
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Answer:
Correct Answer: B
Solution:
- Exp. [b] The Sautrāntika were an early Buddhist school generally believed to be descended from the Sthavirānikāya by way of their immediate parent school, the Sarvāstivādins. Their name means literally “those who rely upon the sutras”, and indicated their rejection of the Abhidharma texts of other early Buddhist schools Sarvāstivāda, (Sanskrit: “Doctrine That All Is Real”) also called Vaibhāṣika, a school of early Buddhism. A fundamental concept in Buddhist metaphysics is the assumption, i of the existence of dharmas, cosmic factors and events that combine momentarily under the influence of a person’s past deeds to form a person’s life flux, which he considers his personality and career. Differences arose among the various early Buddhist schools concerning the ontological reality of these dharmas. While, like all Buddhists, the Sarvāstivādins consider everything empirical to be impermanent, they maintain that the dharma factors are eternally existing realities.
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