A heretical sect among the Buddhists, an offshoot or Gokuliká (Mhv.v.5; Mbv.p.97).
The Dípavamsa (Dpv.v.41) calls the adherents of this sect Bahusuttaká. According to Tibetan sources (Rockhill, p.183) they derived their name from their teacher, Bahusrutiya. In addition to the five propositions held by the Mahásanghikas, they considered it as a fundamental doctrine that there is no mode of life leading to real salvation, that the truth of suffering is the Noble Truth, that to perceive the suffering of the samskáras is to enter perfect purity, that there is no way of seeing the misery of suffering and the misery of change; the Sangha is but subject to worldly laws and conditions, arahants acquire the doctrine of others, there is a rightly preached way and a right entry into samápatti. Ibid., 189.