Editing Devadatta (section)

=== Records from Chinese pilgrims to India ===
[[Faxian]] and other Chinese pilgrims who travelled to India in the early centuries of the current era recorded the continued existence of "Gotamaka" buddhists, followers of Devadatta.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hien|first=Fa|author-link=Fa Xian |author2=tr. by James Legge|title=A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms; being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon, A.D. 399–414, in search of the Buddhist books of discipline|url=https://archive.org/stream/recordofbuddhist00fahsuoft#page/n9/mode/2up|year=1886|publisher=The Clarendon Press, Oxford, p. 62}}</ref> Gotamaka are also referred to in Pali texts of the second and fifth centuries of the current era. The followers of Devadatta are recorded to have honored all the Buddhas previous to Śākyamuni (Gautama Buddha), but not Śākyamuni himself. According to Faxian, [[Xuanzang]] and [[I Ching (monk)|Yijing]]'s writings, some people practised in a similar way and with the same books as common Buddhists, but followed the similar tapas and performed rituals to the past three buddhas and not Śākyamuni.<ref>[http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/chapter_60473_42254.html 佛教开创时期的一场被歪曲被遗忘了的“路线斗争”]</ref>