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one to five pieces of narrow cloth. They carried a sortsika 
flower as a mark of their school. They were styled, ‘‘ the class 
which is honored by many.’ 
4. Karysyana (Tib. PS gigas ngree of the Vaisya 
tribe. His followers were divided into three sects ; they recited 
they had on their garb the figure of a wheel, as the distinctive 
mark of their school. They were styled: *‘ the class that have 
a fixed habitation,’’ AAA 4 | 
The followers of the Vaibhdshika system, in general, stand on 
the lowest degree of speculation. They take every thing in the 
scriptures in their most vulgar acceptations; they believe 
every thing, and will not dispute. Secondly, of the 
2. Sautrdtika school Git ..mdo-sdé-pa), a follower 
of the Sutras. There are two classes, the one will prove every 
thing by authorities contained in the scriptures, the other by 
arguments. 
3. Thethird divisionis that of the Yogdcharya, Eicon 
55] —nal-Abyor-spyod-pa, or RSIS SHC] — sems-tsam-pa. 
There are counted nine subdivisions of this school. The principal 
works on this system are referred to A’RYA SANGA (ARAN 
EPEAT ) in the 7th century, about of our era. There are 
in the Kéh-gyur several works of his, and of is followers. ex- 
planatory of the Yogdchdrya system. Lastly, 
4. Madhydmika school (ATH Ly — = a they that 
keep a middle way). This is properly the philosophical system. 
It originated with NsGaRJUNA (qar- klu-sgrub), 400 years 
~ 
after the death of SHxkyA. His principal disciples have been 
A’rya Deva and Buppua patita. There are in the Stan-gyur 
several works of them on the Madhydmika system. Some 
learned pandits in India have united this system with that of 
the Yogdchérya, as BopuisaTwa (or SHANTA RAKSHITA has done) 
in the 8th century, and afterwards AtisHa in the 11th. 
