mahayana
IPA: mɑhʌjˈɑnʌ
Root Word: Mahayana
noun
- (Buddhism) A school of Buddhism widely practised in East Asia and Vietnam which accepts non-Pali canon scriptures, recognizes a broader array of buddhas and bodhisattvas, and whose spiritual objective is to achieve Buddhahood and liberate other beings, rather than simply to achieve personal enlightenment, as in Theravada Buddhism.
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Examples of "mahayana" in Sentences
- The mahayana school regard him as the apotheosis of perfect wisdom.
- A vehicle of mind with seven excellent qualities like these is what is called mahayana, a vast vehicle of the mind.
- The lord of the country lodged Fa-hien and the others comfortably, and supplied their wants, in a monastery6 called Gomati,6 of the mahayana school.
- At this place the monks and nuns may be a thousand, who all receive their food from the common store, and pursue their studies, some of the mahayana and some of the hinayana.
- He then again exerted himself, and they succeeded in crossing to the south of the range, and arrived in the kingdom of Lo-e,5 where there were nearly three thousand monks, students of both the mahayana and hinayana.
- The inhabitants all profess our Law, and join together in its religious music for their enjoyment. 1 The monks amount to several myriads, most of whom are students of the mahayana. 2 They all receive their food from the common store. 3
- Taking and sending (mahayana mind training) was often the only form of practice I could do, and it worked, not in the sense of easing the pain or finding some transcendent state, but in providing me with a way to be in my experience, not blocking it, nor being consumed by it.
- Furthermore, with a firm foundation of ethical self-discipline, proper disciples have developed a mahayana mind imbued with love, compassion, exceptional resolve and bodhichitta, and have come to hold a madhyamaka view of reality by having studied, in stages, the less sophisticated Buddhist tenet systems.
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