Great Canon of Monastic Rules, The ［摩訶僧祇律］ (Chin Mo-ho-seng-chih-lü;  Maka-sōgi-ritsu): A work of the vinaya, or rules of monastic discipline, of the Mahāsamghika school, translated into Chinese in 416 by Buddhabhadra, a monk from northern India, and Fa-hsien, a Chinese Buddhist pilgrim. Fa-hsien left Ch’ang-an in 399 and journeyed to India to seek Buddhist texts. He obtained the Sanskrit text of The Great Canon of Monastic Rules and brought it back to China. This work divides the Buddhist precepts into two large categories—those for monks and those for nuns.