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出世說部

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出世部 (出世間說部) (or 出世語言部) Lokottaravādinaḥ, 盧俱多婆拖部 an offshoot of the Māhāsaṇghikāḥ division of the eighteen Hīnayāna schools; the tenets of the school are unknown, but the name, as implied by the Chinese translation, suggests if not the idea of Ādi-Buddha, yet that of supra-mundane nature.