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'''Valukarama''' Vihara was a Buddhist monastery or arama or [[Sangharama]] in ancient [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vesali]]<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Encyclopaedia_Indica/hWtDAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=valukarama&dq=valukarama&printsec=frontcover Valukarama] Encyclopaedia Indica by Jagdish Saran Sharma (1981) - Volume 2 - Page 1292.. Retrieved 2023-08-08</ref>  in eastern India where [[Second Buddhist council|Second Buddhist Council]] was held a hundred year after Buddha’s death under the patronage of [[Kalashoka]]. The monastery was situated 2.5 miles south-east of the city and was marked by a Stupa. The Chinese traveller Fahien had visisted and located the Second Council stupa close to the Kutagara.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100305/page/n205/mode/1up ‘VALUKARAMA’]An Early History of Vaisali by Mishra, Yogendra 1962. Retrieved 2023-07-17</ref>,<ref>[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/463427 ‘Śaikṣa-Dharmas Revisited: Further Considerations of Mahāsāṃghika Origins’]. History of Religions. Volume 35, Number 3Feb., 1996. The University of Chicago Press Journals. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/463427 Retrieved 2023-07-16</ref>,<ref>[http://www.paliresearchinstitute.com/Buddhism%20Pdf%20Books/18%20Three%20Baskets%20Tipitaka%20in%20Buddhism.pdf ‘The Second Council’]. Three Baskets (Tipitika) in Buddhism. Retrieved 2023-07-17</ref>.  

The question of the Ten Points raised by the Vajjiputta monks was settled in this [[Sangharama]] during the Second Buddhist Council. The Council at Valukarama was attended by 700 bhikkus from all over India and was presided by Thera Revata and Thera Yasa Sangiti. Thera Sabbakamin from Kosambi was the senior most monk<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Along_the_Path/zQmsAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=valukarama&pg=PA207&printsec=frontcover Valukarama] Along the Path: The Meditator's Companion to the Buddha's Land. Kory Goldberg, ‎Michelle Decary (2012) - Page 207. Retrieved 2023-08-08</ref>. Thera Revata asked Thera Sabbakamin on each of the ten points raised by the heretic Vajjiputta monks and the great Elder judged each of them to be unlawful<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Mah%C4%81va%E1%B9%83sa_the_Great_Chronicle_of_Sri/WMsKAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=valukarama&dq=valukarama&printsec=frontcover Valukarama] Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka by Ananda W. P. Guruge (1989) -Page 1068. Retrieved 2023-08-08</ref>.