<Ol> <Li> Mahākāśyapa, a disciple of the Buddha, presided over the first Buddhist council held at Rājagṛha . Its purpose was to recite and agree on the Buddha's actual teachings and on monastic discipline . Some scholars consider this council fictitious . </Li> <Li> The Second Buddhist Council is said to have taken place at Vaiśālī . Its purpose was to deal with questionable monastic practices like the use of money, the drinking of palm wine, and other irregularities; the council declared these practices unlawful . </Li> <Li> What is commonly called the Third Buddhist Council was held at Pāṭaliputra, and was allegedly called by Emperor Aśoka in the 3rd century BCE . Organized by the monk Moggaliputta Tissa, it was held in order to rid the sangha of the large number of monks who had joined the order because of its royal patronage . Most scholars now believe this council was exclusively Theravada, and that the dispatch of missionaries to various countries at about this time was nothing to do with it . </Li> <Li> What is often called the Fourth Buddhist council is generally believed to have been held under the patronage of Emperor Kaniṣka at Jālandhar in Kashmir, though the late Monseigneur Professor Lamotte considered it fictitious . It is generally believed to have been a council of the Sarvastivāda school . </Li> </Ol> <Li> Mahākāśyapa, a disciple of the Buddha, presided over the first Buddhist council held at Rājagṛha . Its purpose was to recite and agree on the Buddha's actual teachings and on monastic discipline . Some scholars consider this council fictitious . </Li> <Li> The Second Buddhist Council is said to have taken place at Vaiśālī . Its purpose was to deal with questionable monastic practices like the use of money, the drinking of palm wine, and other irregularities; the council declared these practices unlawful . </Li> <Li> What is commonly called the Third Buddhist Council was held at Pāṭaliputra, and was allegedly called by Emperor Aśoka in the 3rd century BCE . Organized by the monk Moggaliputta Tissa, it was held in order to rid the sangha of the large number of monks who had joined the order because of its royal patronage . Most scholars now believe this council was exclusively Theravada, and that the dispatch of missionaries to various countries at about this time was nothing to do with it . </Li>

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