The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2596 page)

An influential Buddhist school of the H
nay
na, closely related to the
Sarv
stiv
da
, which flourished in NW India principally in Gandh
ra and Kashmir. Their name derives from a great treatise known as the
Vibh
, compiled in the early centuries of the Christian era as a commentary on a fundamental work of the
Abhidharma
tradition, the
Jñ
naprasth
na
(Basis of Knowledge) of Katy
yanaputra, a Sarv
stiv
din philosopher. The commentary is an encyclopaedia of Vaibh