This congregation was called Mahasanghika.
Xuanzang has given a description of the site where Ashoka built a stupa to mark the site of Mahasanghika. The site as mentioned by Xuanzang is 20Li west of site of 1st council. We take two buffers from site identified by Beglar and site suggested by Marshall. There are two villages which fall in the area of interest.
Both the village has rich archaeological remains, big stupa like mounds and the potshards suggesting the site to be a vibrant place at the time of Buddha.
Simraur-25º00' 59"N 85º 20' 85"E
Ratna kharjamma-25º01' 09" N 85º 19' 38" E
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Please correct the lat/long supplied below the pictures.
whats the correction to be made
Error is similar to the earlier post. First degree, then second and then minute units are to be used. Please see what you have used.
Sorry, please read my comment as "Error is similar to the earlier post. First degree, then minute and then second units are to be used. Please see what you have used."
can we find out tentively , the number of monastries existing in the Magadha area ( broadly in the triangle b/w Rajgriha , Patliputra and Gaya and )
the nuber of buddhist sites/monastries -SANGHARAMAS during Lord Buddhas time, Ashok , Gupta period, as mentioned by Fahien and Huen Tsang , I Tsing ,Pal Period and lastly on the evee of Turkish invasion of 1200-04 AD.the chinese travellers make mention of hundred of monastries in Magadha. Telhada being famous one.
prsenting that in tabular form will provide easy comarison.therafter these sites may be located on the ground.
Any input on the identification of famous monastry mentioned by Huen Tsang named KUKUTARAMA near Teladhika ( telhada)
regards
dear sir.
its very hard to tell exact no of monasteries.xuanzang say about 50 monasteries with 10K students. bit has given details of about a dozen of them. we can roughly make an estimate on the basis of archaeological remains at site if it was a monastic site or a just a ahbitation. but i still feel its very hard to reach any conclusion.
Deepak Anand ji,
When you talk of any facts and figures based on ceratain references, I would suggest that you please quote, the complete references to make them appear truly research oriented. For example, if you say "xuanzang say about 50 monasteries with 10K students", from where did you bring this information ? Let us say it is from Thomas Watters in the "List of Travelogues & Translations" (http://nalanda-insatiableinoffering.blogspot.com/2009/06/list-of-travelogues-translation.html), Vol.I, p.167, you may quote it as [Watters (1904:I.167)]. This will save a lot of time for other researchers in verifying the facts and figures.
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