Buddhist Councils - West Bengal PCS Exam Notes

I Buddhist Council	500 BC at	Ajatsataru .		Record the Buddha’s sayings (sutra) and codify
	Rajgaha	Presided by		monastic rules (vinaya). Rajgaha is today’s
		Mahakasyapa		Rajgir
II Buddhist Council	383 BC at	Kalasoka		The conservative schools insisted on monastic
	Vaishali			rules (vinaya). The secessionist Mahasangikas
				argued for more relaxed monastic
				rules.Rejection of the Mahasanghikas
III Buddhist Council	250 Subscribe on YouTube BC	Ashoka..	Join Our Telegram Channel width="15">	Purpose was to reconcile the different schools of
	Pataliputra			Buddhism. Presided by Moggaliputta Tissa
IV Buddhist Council	100 AD	Kanishka		Division into Hinayana & Mahayana. Theravada
	Kashmir	Presided by		Buddhism does not recognize the authenticity of
		Vasumitra &		this council, and it is sometimes called the
		Asvaghosha		“council of heretical monks”.
V Buddhist Council	1871	King Mindon		recite all the teachings of the Buddha and
	Myanmar			examine them in minute detail to see if any of
				them had been altered
VI Buddhist Council	1954	P.M. U Nu
	Yangoon

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