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Some of these, for instance the Pitaka of the Vetulyakas, were decidedly heretical according to the standard of local orthodoxy but others probably presented variations of reading and arrangement rather than of doctrine. Anesaki has compared with the received Pali text a portion of the Saṃyuktâgama translated by Guṇabhadra into Chinese.
The germs of the Mahâyâna may be detected in the opinions of some sects on the nature of the Buddha and the career of a Bodhisattva. Thus the Andhakas thought that the Buddha was superhuman in the ordinary affairs of life and the Vetulyakas held that he was not really born in the world of men but sent a phantom to represent him, remaining himself in the Tusita heaven.
So, too, the nature of a Buddha when he is released from form, that is after death, is deep and unfathomable as the ocean. These last two heresies are attributed by the commentary to the Vetulyakas who are said to have believed that he remained in the Tushita heaven and sent a phantom to preach on earth.
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