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maw-huh-YAW-nuh
noun
a major branch of Buddhism
1886Record of Buddhistic KingdomsThere are in Buddhism the triyana, or 'three different means of salvation, i.e. of conveyance across the samsara, or sea of transmigration, to the shores of nirvana. Afterwards the term was used to designate the different phases of development through which the Buddhist dogma passed, known as the mahayana, hinayana, and madhyamayana.'1913The Religion of the SamuraiThe Southern Buddhists never call their faith Hinayana, the name being an invention of later Buddhists, who call their doctrine Mahayana in contradistinction to the earlier form of Buddhism.1958The Dharma BumsHe's a great mysterious Bodhisattva I think maybe a reincarnation of Asagna the great Mahayana scholar of the old centuries.'1989The Thirteen Gun SaluteHe was of the utmost help to me when I was enquiring into the spread of Buddhism—the arrival of Mahayana Buddhism in Java.'Labels: Fa Hien, Jack Kerouac, Kaiten Nukariya, Patrick O'Brian
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