It appears that after the parinibbāna of the Buddha, two factions arose in the saṅgha: one was made up of “dhamma specialists” who adopted a predominantly cognitive approach to the dhamma; the others were meditators, who practiced the four jhānas, the four immaterial states, and the psychic powers. The Cunda Sutta at AN 6.46 urges harmony between the factions, and there are other suttas that also seem to hint at this split.4 It seems the dhamma specialists favored the teaching on the five aggregates and were apparently practicing sīla and pañña while the meditators were practicing sīla,
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