The Basic Points Unifying the Theravāda and the Mahāyāna is an important Buddhist ecumenical statement created in 1967 during the First Congress of the World Buddhist Sangha Council (WBSC), where its founder Secretary-General, the late Venerable Pandita Pimbure Sorata Thera, requested the Ven. Walpola Rahula Thera to present a concise formula for the unification of all the different Buddhist traditions. This text was then unanimously approved by the council.
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Expansion of the formula Ven. Walpola Sri Rahula in 1981 offered an alternative to the formula above restating it as follows:
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References Rahula, Walpola (1974). The Heritage of the Bhikkhu. NY: Grove Press; pp. 100, 137–8. The Young Buddhist, Singapore : Buddha Yana Organization, 1982, p. 161 -163
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