The Fourth Buddhist Council was organized by King Kanishka to
a. make a written copy of the teachings of the Buddha.
b. determine which oral versions of transmitted texts were authoritative.
c. reform Buddhism into the Greater Vehicle version.
d. translate Buddhism from Sanskrit into the Hindi of Southern India.
e. reform the Theravada version of Buddhism.
b
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