Lokuttaravada

Lokottaravada was one of the twenty schools of early Buddhism, according to Mahayana doxological sources compiled by Bhavyaviveka, Vinitadeva and others, and was a sub-group which emerged from the Mahasanghika sect. The [http://texts.00.gs/Mahavastu.htm| Mahāvastu] , the only complete surviving Mahasanghika text in Sanskrit, is attributed to the Lokottaravadins. The Lokottaravadins asserted that there are no real things in the world except two kinds of emptiness (sunyata), that is, sunyata of persons and sunyata of things. The Buddha is transcendent (lokottara) and his life(s) and physical manifestation are mere appearance.