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Vinaya While traditional accounts fix the origins of the Vinaya during the lifetime of the Buddha, all of the existing manuscript traditions are from significantly later- most around the 5th Century CE.[2] While the early Buddhist community seems to have lived primarily as wandering monks who begged for alms, many Vinaya rules in every tradition assumes settled monasticism to be the norm, along with regular collective meals organized by lay donors or funded by monastic wealth.[2] The earliest dates that can be established for most Vinaya texts is their translation into Chinese around the 5th Century CE.[2] The earliest established dates of the Theravada Vinaya stem from the composition of Buddhaghosa‘s commentaries in the 5th Century, and became known to Western scholarship through 17th and 18th Century manuscripts.[2] The Mulasarvastivada Vinaya was translated into Chinese in the 8th Century and Tibetan in the 9th Century but Sanskrit manuscripts exist from the 5th – 7th Century.[...]