Lokuttaravada
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Three Jewels
Buddha . Dharma . Sangha
Three Dharma Seals
Anicca . Dukkha . Anatta
Karma . Rebirth
Samsara . Nirvana
Four Noble Truths
Seven Sets
Four Frames of Reference
Four Right Exertions
Four Bases of Power
Five Faculties
Five Strengths
Seven Factors of Awakening
Noble Eightfold Path
Bodhisattva
Four Great Vows
Ten Great Vows
Lokottaravada was one of the twenty schools of early Buddhism, according to Mahayana doxological sources compiled by Bhavyaviveka, Vinitadeva and others, and was a sub-group which emerged from the Mahasanghika sect. The Mahavastu, the only complete surviving Mahasanghika text in Sanskrit, is attributed to the Lokottaravadins. The Lokottaravadins asserted that there are no real things in the world except two kinds of emptiness (sunyata), that is, sunyata of persons and sunyata of things. The Buddha is transcendent (lokottara) and his life(s) and physical manifestation are mere appearance.
