Crossword clues for hinayana
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hinayana \Hinayana\ n.
a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts.
one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing personal salvation through one's own efforts; chiefly in Sri Lanka (Ceylon); Myanmar (Burma); Thailand; Cambodia.
Wikipedia
Hīnayāna is a Sanskrit term literally meaning: the "Smaller Vehicle", applied to the Śrāvakayāna, the Buddhist path followed by a śrāvaka who wishes to become an arhat. The term appeared around the first or second century. Hīnayāna is often contrasted with Mahāyāna, which means the "Great Vehicle."
There are a variety of interpretations as to who or what the term Hīnayāna refers. Kalu Rinpoche stated the "lesser" or "greater" designation "does not refer to economic or social status, but concerns the spiritual capacities of the practitioner". The Chinese monk Yijing, who visited India in the 7th century, distinguished Mahāyāna from Hīnayāna as follows:
The term was widely used in the past by Western scholars to cover "the earliest system of Buddhist doctrine", as the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary put it. It has been used as a synonym for the Theravada tradition, which continues as the main form of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, but some scholars deny that the term included Theravada Buddhism. In 1950 the World Fellowship of Buddhists declared that the term Hīnayana should not be used when referring to any form of Buddhism existing today.
Usage examples of "hinayana".
One begins with Hinayana mindfulness, which is the monological investigation of immediate awareness.
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.
At this stage one moves far from the Hinayana motivation as one directly assaults the innermost core of the ego.
The man who told me about the temple thought he could make out Hinayana influences, which would make it unique.
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.
The Buddha asserted that until this time he had allowed individuals to practice Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle, and to seek their own enlightenments.
Confucianism, Taoism, various Hinayana and quasi-Mahayana sects, fully developed Mahayana and, finally, to the ultimate religious consciousness of Shingon itself.
Buddhist enlightenment by their own efforts, as had the followers of Hinayana and even of the Maha-yanist sects of Shingon and Tendai esotericism.
There had once been eighteen schools of Hinayana teaching -- all of which had dealt with Buddha as a teacher and urged contemplation and study of his teachings rather than worship of him -- but by the time of the Big Mistake, only one of those schools survived, the Theravada, and that only in remote sections of disease- and famine-ravaged Sri Lanka and Thailand, two political provinces of Old Earth.
The Hinayana was the humblest, a lesser way in which people purified their minds, tried to kill their desires, and concentrated on their own .
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.