INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -d Mahasanghika is the name of an early Buddhist school in India during the Second Buddhist council held at Vaishali. The Mahasanghika school represents the first major schism ever recorded in Buddhism.

Detailed explanation-2: -The original center of the Mahāsāṃghika sect was in Magadha, but they also maintained important centers such as in Mathura and Karli.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mahāsaṅghika, (from Sanskrit mahāsaṅgha, “great order of monks”), early Buddhist school in India that, in its views of the nature of the Buddha, was a precursor of the Mahāyāna tradition. Its emergence about a century after the death of the Buddha (483 bc) represented the first major schism in the Buddhist community.

Detailed explanation-4: - The Mahasamghika (“of the Great Sangha”), one of the early Buddhist schools, may have been the source for the initial growth of Mahayana Buddhism. “Second Buddhist Council” that occurred a hundred years after Buddha’s parinirvana.