Author: Max Deeg | AAV 37 (2024) | Pages: 5-66 | https://doi.org/10.60018/AcAsVa.lrct5018 
Abstract
This article traces the history of the Abhayagiri-vihāra in Sri Lanka through the available sources. It attempts to reconstruct parts of the “lost” history of the Mahāvihāra’s rival monastery in the vaṃsa literature of the latter, but also reexamines the Chinese sources about the two main monasteries of the island and the traces of Tantric Buddhism from the Abhayagiri-vihāra in order to sketch a more multifaceted history of the monastery and its rivalry with the Mahāvihāra than has been undertaken to date with an overreliance on the Pāli sources.
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