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Usage examples of mahayana.

Mahayana preached universal love, through the ideal of the bodhisattva, for all beings, animal as well as human.

Mahayana was accompanied both by a tendency to regard the Buddha as a transcendent, rather than earthly, being and by adulation for the bodhisattva, or buddha-to-be, who would assist others on the path to buddhahood.

The career of the bodhisattva represents it in the classical Mahayana.

Their specifically Buddhist application was linked to the quest for illumination and salvation by the rapid path as distinct from that of the earlier Mahayana, which offered the slow path of the bodhisattva with the ripening of the necessary perfections over numerous lives.

During the same reign a controversy developed between Chinese Buddhist adherents of the rapid path of Buddhahood and Indian defenders of the classical Mahayana or bodhisattva progression by stages.

Those whose faith in reason is relatively poor, and whose ego correspondingly strong, will take the Hinayana path, but may take to the Mahayana path at a later time.

The stages of the Hinayana and Mahayana are similar only in the sense that both lead to a direct understanding of Reality, or God.

Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhist scriptures, and any number of others-and these he would scan rapidly.

In China, it had already proliferated into a number of abstruse metaphysical sects, within bodi the Hinayana and Mahayana schools, that could scarcely have appealed to the Japanese beyond a small circle of intellectuals at court.

Confucianism, Taoism, various Hinayana and quasi-Mahayana sects, fully developed Mahayana and, finally, to the ultimate religious consciousness of Shingon itself.

Then he read the Bible, the Koran, and other major religious works: he covered Islam, Zoroastrianism, Mazdaism, Zarathustrianism, Dharma, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Vedanta, Jainism, Buddhism, Hinayana, Mahayana, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism and Confucianism.

Just as the Christian Religion has a whole horde of different branches from the Plymouth Brethren to the Roman Catholic faith, so does the Buddhist school branch into two-they are The Hinayana, which means the Narrow Way, and The Mahayana, which means the Great Way.

In other words, whereas Hinayana Buddhism remained a broad philosophical system, Mahayana Buddhism, which was exported to China, was much more a conventional religion.

This doctrine was a development of the Yogacara philosophy of the Indian Mahayana.

These two contemplatives, who were brothers, are among the most authoritative proponents of the school of Mahayana Buddhism, which remains today a living tradition among Tibetans and other Asian societies.