NOUN
- a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts
- 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
How To Use Hinayana In A Sentence
- The main criterion for establishing a teaching as authentically Buddhist is its unbroken lineage tracing back to Buddha - whether one describes Buddha according to classic Buddhology, transpersonal psychology, or the Hinayana, general Mahayana, or highest Tantrayana views. Making Sense of Tantra ��� 2 The Authenticity of the Tantras
- Progressively developing the five pathway minds as Hinayana practitioners, we become either resultant abider shravaka arhats or resultant abider pratyekabuddha arhats, rid of the emotional obscurations. The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Basic Presentation
- The view of an Arhat or realized being who has followed the path of the Hinayana, is, according to the Mahayanists, equal to that of a bodhisattva on the sixth bhumi Hegel on Buddhism
- According to the Gelug explanation of Chittamatra as given by Tsongkhapa in his earlier writings, the continuity of the alayavijnana ceases with the true stopping of the emotional obscurations, whether this occurs with the attainment of Hinayana arhatship or an arya bodhisattva eighth level bhumi mind. Basic Features of the Gelug-Chittamatra System ��� 2 Specific Points Concerning the Three Types of Characterized Phenomena
- Arya Hinayanists with Hinayana accustoming pathway minds up to the phase immediately preceding the last phase before Hinayana arhatship still have only the third. Overview of the Eight Sets of Realizations in Abhisamayalamkara
- Progressing through the five pathway minds as Hinayana practitioners, we become either a resultant abider shravaka arhat or a resultant abider pratyekabuddha arhat, rid of the emotional obscurations. The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation
- The Hinayana approach stresses the ideal of the arhat, the enlightened one who has attained nirvana.
- The Chan sect of China has called itself"Supplementary Biography of Buddhism", but its MuniuYus not only come from Mahayana, but also have a bearing on Hinayana.
- Hinayana self-denial, and tinged with the Vajrayana culture of "Lamaism," as Hegel calls it, which would have been highly visible to Samuel Turner. Hegel on Buddhism
- Hinayana and Mahayana forms of Buddhist practice yet equally operates in foundational ways within a broad range of Romantic thought as well. Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism
