Early Buddhist school
Central Asian Buddhist monk teaching a Chinese monk. Bezeklik Caves , 9th–10th century; although Albert von Le Coq (1913) assumed the blue-eyed , red-haired monk was a Tocharian ,[ 1] modern scholarship has identified similar Caucasoid figures of the same cave temple (No. 9) as ethnic Sogdians ,[ 2] an Eastern Iranian people who inhabited Turfan as an ethnic minority community during the phases of Tang Chinese (7th–8th century) and Uyghur rule (9th–13th century).[ 3]
The Dharmaguptaka (Sanskrit : धर्मगुप्तक; Chinese : 法藏部 ; pinyin : Fǎzàng bù ; Vietnamese : Pháp Tạng bộ ) are one of the eighteen or twenty early Buddhist schools , depending on the source. They are said to have originated from another sect, the Mahīśāsakas . The Dharmaguptakas had a prominent role in early Central Asian and Chinese Buddhism , and their Prātimokṣa (monastic rules for bhikṣus and bhikṣuṇīs ) are still in effect in East Asian countries to this day, including China , Vietnam , Korea , and Japan as well as the Philippines . They are one of three surviving Vinaya lineages, along with that of the Theravāda and the Mūlasarvāstivāda .
^ von Le Coq, Albert. (1913). Chotscho: Facsimile-Wiedergaben der Wichtigeren Funde der Ersten Königlich Preussischen Expedition nach Turfan in Ost-Turkistan . Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), im Auftrage der Gernalverwaltung der Königlichen Museen aus Mitteln des Baessler-Institutes, Tafel 19 . (Accessed 3 September 2016).
^ Gasparini, Mariachiara. "A Mathematic Expression of Art: Sino-Iranian and Uighur Textile Interactions and the Turfan Textile Collection in Berlin ", in Rudolf G. Wagner and Monica Juneja (eds), Transcultural Studies , Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, No 1 (2014), pp 134–163. ISSN 2191-6411 . See also endnote #32 . (Accessed 3 September 2016.)
^ Hansen, Valerie (2012), The Silk Road: A New History , Oxford University Press, p. 98, ISBN 978-0-19-993921-3 .