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Hinayana
Hinayana is a
Sanskrit term literally meaning: the "Smaller Vehicle", applied to the
Sravakayana, the Buddhist path followed by a sravaka who wishes to become an
arhat. The term appeared around the first or second century. Hinayana is often contrasted with
Mahayana, which means the "Great Vehicle."
Hinayana
Noun
1. a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts
(hypernym) Buddhism
(member-meronym) Hinayanist
2. an offensive name for Theravada Buddhism
(synonym) Hinayana Buddhism
(hypernym) Theravada, Theravada Buddhism
Hinayana
Hinayana (Sanskrit) Little vehicle; the Theravada school of Southern Buddhism, with its representative in the Buddhism of the North; usually considered the exoteric school in contrast with the Mahayana (great vehicle), the so-called esoteric school. The Hinayana represents what Buddhist mystics have called the eye doctrine, that portion of the Buddha's teaching which is exoteric or for the public, and therefore visible to the eye; while the Mahayana is called the heart doctrine, meaning that portion of the Buddha's teaching which was hid, the secret or heart of the teaching. But there is also a distinctly esoteric side to the Hinayana when it is properly analyzed and understood.
See also Theravada
Hinayana
The term literally means "the Little Way." It is a derogatory term put onto
Theravada Buddhism by those who follow
Mahayana, which means "the Great Way (or vehicle, or raft)."
Hinayana
n.syn. Theravada)
