ABSTRACT
The difference between the two chronologies is rather considerable. According to the long chronology all eighteen schools existed eighteen years before the accession of Aśoka. According to the short chronology divisions among the Sthaviras do not begin until 100 years after the accession of Aśoka. We do not know whether other major schools than the Theravādins and the Sarvāstivādins had created their own chronologies. The , a work translated into Chinese between AD 317 and 420, follows more or less the same chronology as Pseudo-Vasumitra.9 Bhavya preserves various traditions which may be old, but it seems dangerous to rely on material only collected as late as the sixth century AD.
