Pudgalavāda
A tradition no longer extant within Sthaviravāda (Sthavira nikāya). The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Pudgalavāda is recorded within Sthaviravāda (Sthavira nikāya) and is no longer extant. Also written the Personalists.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Cox states the Vātsīputrīya, also called the Pudgalavāda, was probably the first school to emerge from the Sthavira side. Priestley names five Pudgalavāda schools: Vātsīputrīya (earliest), Dharmottarīya, Bhadrayānīya, Sāmmatīya and Ṣaṇṇagarika, with the Vātsīputrīya and Sāmmatīya the most significant. No founder or founding date is given in either source, and no date of extinction is given.
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “Pudgalavāda.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-pudgalavada.
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title = {Pudgalavāda},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.