Thesaurus: Hinayana
a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts
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Definitions
- n. a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts
- n. 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
- n. a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts n. 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