Mahayanist

American  

[mah-huh-yahn-ist] / ˌmɑ həˈjɑn ɪst /

adjective

1. relating or adhering to Mahayana, a major strand of Buddhism.

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noun

• Mahayanists
  plural

1. an adherent or follower of Mahayana, a major strand of Buddhism.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Mahayanism
  noun
• Mahayanistic
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Mahayanists
  plural

Example Sentences

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Mahayanist Mahayanists

Huxley's utopia is the island of Pala, whose happy inhabitants of mixed Indian, European and native descent have evolved a new form of Mahayanist Buddhism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though the setting of the story is miraculous and Buddhas and Bodhisattvas innumerable are freely spoken of, yet the work does not enunciate the characteristic Mahayanist doctrines so definitely as the other treatises here enumerated.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot

This original has not been identified with any work known to exist in India but might well be a Mahayanist catechism composed there about the eleventh century.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot

But still several phrases in them have a Mahayanist flavour.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot

The Mahayanist scriptures are composed in Sanskrit not in Pali, but it is only rarely—for instance in the works of Aśvaghosha—that Buddhist Sanskrit conforms to the rules of the classical language.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot

The Mahayanists, however, compare the Hinayana doctrine with a resting-place on the road for a traveller, while the Mahayana doctrine with his destination.

From The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Kaiten Nukariya

But the association of the Sarvâstivâdins with Mahayanists is clear from the council of Kanishka onwards.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot

Many eminent Buddhists began by being Sarvâstivâdins and became Mahayanists, their earlier belief being regarded as preliminary rather than erroneous.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot

Among the Mahayanists the ancient Vinaya and Nikayas exist only as literary curiosities.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot

Thus they became aware that there was no definite demarcation between Mahayanism and Hinayanism, and that they might become Mahayanists.

From The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Kaiten Nukariya