| I Buddhist Council | 500 BC at | Ajatsataru . | Record the Buddha’s sayings (sutra) and codify | ||||
| Rajgaha | Presided by | monastic rules (vinaya). Rajgaha is today’s | |||||
| Mahakasyapa | Rajgir | ||||||
| II Buddhist Council | 383 BC at | Kalasoka | The conservative schools insisted on monastic | ||||
| Vaishali | rules (vinaya). The secessionist Mahasangikas | ||||||
| argued for more relaxed monastic | |||||||
| rules.Rejection of the Mahasanghikas | |||||||
| III Buddhist Council | 250 BC | Ashoka.. | Purpose was to reconcile the different schools of | ||||
| Pataliputra | Buddhism. Presided by Moggaliputta Tissa | ||||||
| IV Buddhist Council | 100 AD | Kanishka | Division into Hinayana & Mahayana. Theravada | ||||
| Kashmir | Presided by | Buddhism does not recognize the authenticity of | |||||
| Vasumitra & | this council, and it is sometimes called the | ||||||
| Asvaghosha | “council of heretical monks”. | ||||||
| V Buddhist Council | 1871 | King Mindon | recite all the teachings of the Buddha and | ||||
| Myanmar | examine them in minute detail to see if any of | ||||||
| them had been altered | |||||||
| VI Buddhist Council | 1954 | P.M. U Nu | |||||
| Yangoon | |||||||