Entrance into the Supreme Doctrine by Most Venerable Professor Dr. K.L. Dhamma Joti

Title: Entrance into the Supreme Doctrine
Author: Professor K L Dhammajoti
Publisher: Centre of Buddhist Studies, HKU
2nd Edition, 294 pages+
ISBN: 978-988-99295-3-3
Date of Press: June, 2008
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Through the pioneering efforts of the Japanese and western scholars like
C. Akanuma, T. Kimura, Th. Stcherbatsky and Louis de la Vallée Poussin,
the importance of the study of Northern Buddhism has been acknowledged
by most scholars. Today, no serious researcher wishing to have an adequate
understanding of “early” Buddhism can afford to ignore the valuable data
embodied in the Northern Buddhist literature, which are parallel to those in
the Pāli Canon.

Among these Northern Schools, the Sarvāstivāda was certainly the most
powerful one in north-west India at the beginning of the Christian era.
A study of Sarvāstivāda doctrines will throw light not only on the common
tenets of early Buddhism, but also on the origins of the Mahāyāna. In the
history of Buddhism, the two major Mahāyāna schools, Mādhyamika and
Yogācāra, had to confront with the Sarvāstivāda: the Mādhyamika may be
regarded partly as a radical criticism of the so-called Hīnayāna, particularly
the Sarvāstivāda; and the Yogācāra, partly as a Mahāyānist modification of
the Sarvāstivāda.