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INTRODUCTION
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The three turning-points in the history of Buddhism are represented by the Pluralism of the Ābhidharmika Schools with a modified Sautrāntika view-point, the Mādhyamika Advayavāda and the Yogācāra Vijñānavāda?
The last phase of this doctrinal development in the history of Indian Buddhism presupposes the Ābhidharmika dharma-theory and its modification by the Sautrantika by way of review and criticism. The Sautrāntikas condensed 'the list of the seventy-five Vaibhāșika dharma's to forty-three?, rejected the concept of the asaṁksta dharmas as dravyā sat", elaborated the unique character (svalakṣaṇa) of the empirical existents in the state of flux and elucidated the nature of the saṁsksta dharmas with a basic rejection of the entity of past and the future time-passages. They further rejected the entity of the cittaviprayukta dharmas as dravya-sat,
(contd. from p. xciv)
(quoted by Yamakami Sogen, Systems of Buddhist Thought, p. 102); The Sākāra Vijñānavāda is also an outcome of the Sautrāntika bāhyārthānumeyavāda; vide, JMN, p. 409 sq., 506, 515-9
sq. (1972fafgerT and ATHEFT). 1. Murti, CPB., pp. 14-5, 17 etc.; Chatterji, ibid, pp. 14-5. 2. Vide, McGovern, A Compendium of Buddhist Philosophy, on
this point. Jaini, Abd., Intro., sect. III, pp. 50-68, specially,
p. 68, f.n. 1; BDD, p. 373 sq. 3. AKB, 11.55, pp. 91-4, p. 92 : H arithaagufufa attraat: 1. 4. cp. AKB, III.24-5; Narendradeva, Ācārya, AK (Hindi trans.), I,
pp. 308-9. 5. AKB, V.27, pp. 298-9.
