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
- Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana.
- No Mahayana at all, strange to say.
- They seem rather unimportant in Mahayana.
- It is a mahayana idea and zen is also mahayana.
- They are not particularly important in Mahayana.
- It is often held to by synonymous with Mahayana.
- And mahayana is already included in the template.
- Mahayana Buddhism accepted the cosmology as above.
- Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition.
- This article tends to swing from an anti mahayana to a pro mahayana stance.