UPSC Prelims 2024 · Question 14 of 97
UPSC Prelims 2024 question on Sanghabhuti Sarvastivada Vinaya
- ExamUPSC CSE
- Year2024
- PaperGeneral Studies Paper I
- SubjectArt and Culture
- TopicBuddhism and Jainism
- DifficultyHard
- TypeDirect
Sanghabhuti, an Indian Buddhist monk, who travelled to China at the end of the fourth century AD, was the author of a commentary on:
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Answer: C. Sarvastivada Vinaya
India developed cultural relations with China through the propagation of Buddhism there. In the first century B.C., the Buddhist monks Dharmaratna and Kasyapa Matanga went to China and spent the rest of their lives there translating Buddhist texts into Chinese and preaching Buddhism among the people.
Afterwards too many Buddhist missionaries like Kumarajiva, Sangabhuti, Gyanabhadra, Buddhbhadra, Jiva Gupta, Dharma Gupta, Prabhakaramitra, Sudhakarasingha, etc., went to China.
Sangabhuti was the author of the commentary on the Sarvastivada Vinaya.
Hence option (c) Sarvastivada Vinaya is the correct answer.