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 BC | Ashoka.. | 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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