Editing Sarvastivada (section)

===Tarim Basin===
When the Chinese pilgrim [[Xuanzang]] visited [[Kucha]] in the [[Tarim Basin]] in 630 CE, he received the favours of Suvarṇadeva, the son and successor of [[Suvarnapushpa|Suvarṇapuṣpa]], the non-[[Mahayana]] Buddhist king of Kucha.<ref>{{cite book |last = Grousset |first = René |author-link = René Grousset |title = The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia |url = https://archive.org/details/empireofsteppes00grou |url-access = registration |access-date = 20 November 2016 |year = 1970 |publisher = Rutgers University Press |location = New Brunswick, NJ |isbn = 978-0-8135-1304-1 |page=99}}</ref> Xuanzang described in many details the characteristics of Kucha, and probably visited the [[Kizil Caves]].<ref name="DCW">{{cite web |last1=Waugh |first1=Daniel (Historian, University of Washington) |title=Kizil |url=http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/religion/buddhism/tarim/kizil.html |website=depts.washington.edu |publisher=Washington University |access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> Of the religion of the people of Kucha, he says that they were Sarvastivadins:<ref name="SB">{{cite book |last1=Beal |first1=Samuel |title=Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World : Translated from the Chinese of Hiuen Tsiang (A.D. 629) |year=2000 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-24469-5 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kmISY_Z7bEgC&pg=PA19 |language=en}}, also available in: {{cite web |title=Kingdom of K'iu-chi (Kucha or Kuche) [Chapter 2] |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/south-asia/book/buddhist-records-of-the-western-world-xuanzang/d/doc220147.html#note-e-86576 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |access-date=30 December 2020 |date=27 June 2018}}</ref><br>
{{blockquote|There are about one hundred convents (saṅghārāmas) in this country, with five thousand and more disciples. These belong to the [[Hinayana|Little Vehicle]] of the school of the Sarvāstivādas (Shwo-yih-tsai-yu-po). Their doctrine (teaching of Sūtras) and their rules of discipline (principles of the Vinaya) are like those of India, and those who read them use the same (originals).|Xuanzang, on the religion of Kucha.<ref name="SB"/>}}