The text has been previously treated as evidence of early Mahāsāṃghika developments, but Funayama finds several characteristics that lead him to suspect that it cannot be a pure translation of a Mahāsāṃghika source.
The text has been previously treated as evidence of early Mahasamghika developments, but Funayama finds several characteristics that lead him to suspect that it cannot be a pure translation of a Mahasamghika source. T1465; 舍利弗問經