Talk:Third Buddhist council

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This section was taken from the excerpt at the beginning of the Sixth Great Buddhist Council. Approved by all the venerable monks from the entire world. What is more authentic than this?

"bogus monks who held heretical views" and "In this way the Bhikkhu Sangha was purged of heretics and bogus bhikkhus" and more..., this is not language for wikipedia and your argument is not NPOV. Please, feel free to change it.Tdudkowski 23:06, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

This account presents Theravadin sources as fact. If this council actually ocurred, most modern scholars believe that it was a rather limited, local affair. Note that it is mentioned nowhere in any Buddhist source outside of the Theravadin tradition. Even the Theravadin account is very late, some 600 or 700 years after the claimed event.--Stephen Hodge 01:44, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree with both the above comments. The account should present, in an objective way, the information found in the Samantapasadika and other Theravadin sources, not as established fact, but as the POV of the Theravadin school. This information is of great historical interest, but this needs to be differentiated from Theravadin propaganda. In the main article on the Councils i have mentioned several different councils that could all be regarded as the third Council. I wonder whether we need to expand the articles on all these, and if so, should this be on one page or a separate page for each? Sujato

Third Council Known to Other Schools ?

I have restored the statement that the 3rd Council was unknown to other schools. As far as I know, it is not mentioned in any of the extant literature of the other schools. Please supply references if it is mentioned. --Stephen Hodge 23:47, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Updating to reflect Mahayana reference. Please find a detailed account in Chinese of the 3rd Buddhist Council under the patronage of King Ashoka in line T24n1462_p0678b01(00) of the 善見律毘婆沙. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gurujii (talk • contribs) 22:04, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

善見律毘婆沙 (T24n1462) appears to be a chinese translation of the sri lankan samantapāsādikā - which as a theravadan text, does not actually address the disputed point. the article text should likely be reverted or modified to reflect this detail, and correct the continuing problem of neutrality — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.60.35 (talk) 17:15, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Influence in the West

The article mentions various possible influences of Buddhist missionaries to the West (whose very existence is a matter of dispute among scholars. I'd like to know whether any reputable scholar takes these suggestions seriously, or whether they're just amateur theorizing. Peter jackson (talk) 16:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Council of Pataliputra

The book I have refers to this as the Council of Pataliputra and sets the date as being either 241 or 243 B.C. I plan to incorporate this into the article without changing existing information unless anyone states a viable objection to this. ludahai 魯大海 (talk) 23:44, 2 August 2012 (UTC)