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Hīnayāna (Chinese: 小乘 Xiǎochèng; Korean: 소승 Soseung; Japanese: Shōjō; Vietnamese: Tiểu thừa, Tibetan: ཐེག་ཅུང་, Mongolian: бага хөлгөн, baga kölgen) is a Sanskrit and Pali term literally meaning:, "the low vehicle", "the inferior vehicle", or "the deficient vehicle", where "vehicle" (yāna) means "a way of going to enlightenment". According to the MacMillan Library Reference Encyclopedia of... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Hinayana Jonathan Salk has argued that the term "Hinayana" was used to refer to whomever one wanted to criticize on any given occasion, and did not refer to any definite grouping of Buddhists.

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Hinayana Jonathan Salk has argued that the term "Hinayana" was used to refer to whomever one wanted to criticize on any given occasion, and did not refer to any definite grouping of Buddhists.

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Buddhism in Bangladesh Gradually, Hinayana lost its hold, and Mahayana took ascendancy over Hinayana.

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Hinayana In the following passage, the term hinayana is translated as "inferior vehicle" (emphasis added).

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    Hinayana

    Hīnayāna (Chinese: 小乘 Xiǎochèng; Korean: 소승 Soseung; Japanese: Shōjō; Vietnamese: Tiểu thừa, Tibetan: ཐེག་ཅུང་, Mongolian: бага хөлгөн, baga kölgen) is a Sanskrit and Pali term literally meaning:, "the low vehicle", "the inferior vehicle", or "the deficient vehicle", where "vehicle" (yāna) means "a way of going to enlightenment".
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    Hinayana Buddhism

    Hinayana Buddhism is an expression that may refer to Theravada Buddhism (mainly because it is the only surviving Buddhist school that does not claim to be part of the Mahayana tradition) or, more properly, to Hinayana practice and motivation.
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    Schools of Buddhism

    The following lists the twenty sects described as Hinayana in some Mahayana texts:
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    Mahayana

    ‘Clinging to the well-being of mere peace' signifies the lower capacity [Hinayana] attitude wherein the longing to transcend suffering is focused on oneself alone.
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    Nikaya Buddhism

    The term Nikāya Buddhism was invented by Mahayanist scholars, in order to find a more acceptable (less derogatory) term than Hinayana to refer to the Early Buddhist schools.
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    Buddhism in Bangladesh

    Both the Hinayana and Mahayana sects of Buddhism flourished during the Gupta period.
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    Buddhism

    These texts were apparently not universally accepted among Indian Buddhists when they appeared; the pejorative label 'Hinayana' was applied by Mahayana supporters to those who rejected the Mahayana sutras.
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    Mahayana sutras

    The Mahayana Sutras would thus belong to the two later turnings, and not form part of the 'Hinayana' turning.
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    Ajanta Caves

    Actually, Hinayana – a derogative term for Sthaviravada – does not object to Buddha statues.
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    Vajrayana

    From this view, the Hinayana and Mahayana can be seen as provisional and compromised aspects of the Vajrayana.

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