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Overview of noun hinayana

The noun hinayana has 2 senses


  • Hinayana -- (a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts)

  • Hinayana, Hinayana Buddhism -- (an offensive name for the early conservative Theravada Buddhism; it died out in India but survived in Sri Lanka and was taken from there to other regions of southwestern Asia)