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a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts

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  1. n. a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts
  2. 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
  3. 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