Sarvāstivāda

thumb|Seated Buddha from the Sarvāstivādin monastery of Tapa Shotor, 2nd century CE

thumb|Tibetan art|Tibetan illustration of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the post-mortem intermediate state (bardo). Some Tibetan Buddhists hold that when a being goes through the intermediate state, they will have visions of various deities. In some schools of Buddhism, bardo ( Wylie: bar do) or antarābhava (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as zhōng yǒu and in Japanese as ''chū'u'') is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth. The concept arose soon after Gautama Buddha's death, with a number of earlier Buddhist schools accepting

collection of early Buddhist texts

thumb|Tibetan Buddhism|Tibetan Buddhist bhikṣus of the Mūlasarvāstivāda ordination lineage

Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika () or simply Vaibhāṣika () was an ancient Buddhist tradition of Abhidharma (scholastic Buddhist philosophy), which was very influential in North India, especially Kashmir. In various texts, they referred to their tradition as Yuktavāda (the doctrine of logic), and another name for them was Hetuvāda (the doctrine of causes). The Vaibhāṣika school was an influential subgroup of the larger Sarvāstivāda school. They were distinguished from other Sarvāstivāda sub-schools like the Sautrāntika and the "Western Masters" of Gandhara and Bactria by their orthodox adherence to the

encyclopedic work on Abhidharma

The was one of the six schools of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Asuka and Nara periods. Along with the Jōjitsu-shū and the Risshū, it is a school of Nikaya Buddhism, which is sometimes derisively known to Mahayana Buddhism as "the Hinayana".

The Jñānaprasthāna () or Jñānaprasthāna-śāstra (), composed originally in Sanskrit by Kātyāyanīputra, is one of the seven Sarvastivada Abhidharma Buddhist scriptures; the title means "establishment of knowledge".