Namo Buddhaya,
berarti Vibhajyavada memang diragukan tidak pernah ada... Jadi memang Theravada tidak ada hubungannya dengan Vibhajyavada ? ? ?
Itu pengertian saya setelah menterjemahkan dari Bahasa Inggris... CMIIW (Correct me if i'm wrong)... Can You Correct yourself if you wrong ? hahahahahaha
Fakta-fakta tentang Theravada :
1. The Theravāda school is fundamentally derived from
the Vibhajjavāda (or "doctrine of analysis") grouping.
2. The Theravadan accounts of its own origins mention that it received the teachings that were agreed upon during the Third Buddhist Council, and these teachings were known as
the Vibhajjavada.
3. In ancient India,
those schools that used Sanskrit as their religious language referred to this school as the Sthaviras, but those that use Pali as their religious language referred to this school as the Theras. Both Sthaviras and Theras both literally mean "the Elders". The school has been using the name Theravada for itself in a written form
since at least the 4th century, when the term appears in the Dipavamsa.
3. Xuanzang wrote of two major divisions of Theravāda in Sri Lanka, referring to the
Abhayagiri tradition as the "Mahāyāna Sthaviras," and the Mahāvihāra tradition as the "Hīnayāna Sthaviras." =
Tanya kenapa kedua-duanya Sthavira yang menggunakan bahas Sanskrit bukan Pali ?4. Akira Hirakawa notes that the surviving commentaries (Aṭṭhakathā) of the Mahāvihāra sect, when examined closely,
also include a number of positions that agree with Mahāyāna teachings. = Tanya kenapa ?
5. Some scholars have held that the rulers of Sri Lanka enforced orthodoxy to ensure that Theravāda remained traditional, and
that this characteristic contrasts with Indian Buddhism. = Tanya kenapa ?
6. However, before the 12th century,
more rulers of Sri Lanka gave support and patronage to the Abhayagiri Theravādins, and travelers such as Faxian saw the Theravādins of Abhayagiri as the main tradition.
7. This changed in the 12th century, when the Mahāvihāra gained the support of King Parakkamabāhu I (1153-1186 CE), and
the Abhayagiri and Jetavana traditions were banned from Sri Lanka. = Tanya kenapa ?
8. The Theravāda monks from these two traditions were then given the choice of
returning to the laity or seeking re-ordination under the Mahāvihāra tradition. = Tekanan Politik ?
9. Before the unification of Theravāda Buddhism in Sri Lanka, the areas of Thailand, Burma, Laos, and Cambodia
were dominated by various Buddhist sects from India, and included the teachings of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
10. Though there are some early accounts that have been interpreted as Theravāda in Burma,
the surviving records show that most Burmese Buddhism incorporated Mahāyāna, and used Sanskrit rather than Pali. = Tanya kenapa ?
11. After the decline of Buddhism in India,
missions of monks from Sri Lanka gradually converted Burmese Buddhism to Theravāda, and in the next two centuries also brought Theravāda Buddhism to the areas of Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, where it supplanted previous forms of Buddhism. = Bhikku-bhikku Sri Lanka meconvert Kaum Sthaviravada dan Mahayana ke Theravada ?
Ada politik disini, sehingga ajaran Sthaviravada dan Mahayana India yang menggunakan bahasa Sanskrit dirubah ke Pali oleh penguasa.