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Words related to mahayana

Ma·ha·ya·na
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  • saddharma-pundarika

    a Mahayana sutra, forming with its references to Amida and the Bodhisattvas the basis for the doctrine that there is something of Buddha in everyone, so that salvation is universally available: a central text of Mahayana Buddhism.

  • hinayana

    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.

  • lamaism

    the Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia, a Mahayana form including non-Buddhist Indian elements as well as elements of the preexisting Bön shamanism.

  • madhyamika

    a school of philosophy, of a.d. c200, that attempted a reconciliation with Hinayana from a Mahayana position.

  • prajnā-paramita

    a series of sutras dealing with the perfection of wisdom: systematized by the Madhyamikas.

  • pranidhana

    (in Mahayana Buddhism) the resolution not to enter nirvana until all beings are ready to enter.
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