Definitions for Hinayana

Hinayana Hi·na·ya·na

Spelling: [hee-nuh-yah-nuh]
IPA: /ˌhi nəˈyɑ nə/

Hinayana is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in Hinayana (aaahinny).

Definitions for Hinayana

noun

  1. earlier of the two great schools of Buddhism, still prevalent in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia, emphasizing personal salvation through one's own efforts.

Origin of Hinayana

1865-70; Sanskrit, equivalent to hīna lesser, inferior + yāna vehicle

Examples for Hinayana

The people of the country were mostly students of the Hinayana.

And if we look at the abuses of both systems the fossilized monk of the Hinayana will compare favourably with the tantric adept.

There are two monasteries in it, the inmates of which are students of the Hinayana.

Vehicles, the three, 234, 235; see also Hinayana and Mahayana.

The Mahayana grows out of the Hinayana and in many respects the Hinayana passes into it and is preserved unchanged.

The longest recension is said to contain a polemic against the Hinayana.

In this also there were more than four thousand monks, all students of the Hinayana.

In the Panjab both schools were prevalent but the Hinayana evidently strong.

Now, as of old, there is a company of monks there, most of whom are students of the Hinayana.

The first two which were the older seem to have belonged to the Hinayana and the other two even more definitely to the Mahayana.

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