Kashyapiya school
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Kashyapiya school
飲光部・迦葉遺部 (Skt; Jpn Onko-bu or Kashoi-bu)
An offshoot of the Sarvastivada school, and one of the so-called twenty Hinayana schools. According to The Doctrines of the Different Schools, the Kashyapiya school branched out from the Sarvastivada school in the third one-hundred-year period after Shakyamuni Buddha's death.
See; twenty Hinayana schools.