Hinayana
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of Hinayana
First recorded in 1865–70; from Sanskrit, equivalent to hīna “lesser, inferior” + yāna “vehicle”
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The two great Buddhist traditions are Hinayana and Mahayana.
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Information Service movies in the town hall, embraces the Hinayana or southern variety of Buddhism.
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The sages heard discussions of such topics as the Problem of the Person in Hinayana Buddhism, the Trivialization of Mathematical Logic, Entic Parallelism, and a Practical Philosophy of Cosmic Energy.
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Buddhism, at least in its older Hinayana form, is a do-it-yourself effort to achieve enlightenment and the end of suffering, minus metaphysics or the idea of God.
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We have to note that there are some differences between the Mahayana doctrine of unreality and the Hinayana doctrine of unreality.
From The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Kaiten Nukariya
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