hinayana   (TTS Sound)

The hinayana has 2 Senses.

• hinayana
• 小乗
• a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts
• 自分自身の努力を通じて個人の救済を説く仏教の主要宗派

• hinayana buddhism, hinayana
• 小乗仏教, 小乗
• 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
• 初期の保守的なテラベーダ仏教の侮蔑的な名称