One of the five branch schools of the Mahasanghika division of the 18 schools of Hinayana. It asserted Buddha as a transcendent being, whose body is beyond the perishable ones of this world, thus forming the basis for the Mahayana explanation of the Three Bodies of a Buddha.
Tibetan: འཇིག་རྟེན་ལས་འདས་པར་སྨྲ་བ། 'jig-rten-las 'das-par smra-ba
Sanskrit: lokottaravāda
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