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Mahayana|mɑːhəˈjɑːnə|
[Skr. mahāyāna, f. mahā great + yāna vehicle.]
The ‘Great Vehicle’, a name given to the more general form of Buddhism practised in northern Asia. Cf. Hinayana. Also attrib. So Mahaˈyanian a., Mahaˈyanism, Mahaˈyanist a. and n., Mahayaˈnistic a.
1868[see Hinayana]. 1883Max Müller India iii. 87 The Northern conquerors..seem to have made a kind of compromise with Buddhism, and it is probably due to that compromise, or to an amalgamation of Saka legends with Buddhist doctrines, that we owe the so-called Mahâyâna form of Buddhism. 1891W. W. Rockhill Land of Lamas 105 A curious perversion of the Mahāyānist doctrine of the Kāyatraya. 1907[see Hinayana]. 1907D. T. Suzuki Outl. Mahayana Buddhism 21 The idea is distinctly Mahayanistic. 1927A. Huxley Proper Stud. v. 187 In the first century of our era..the Mahayana or Great Vehicle was created, and Buddhism became an entirely new religion. 1945,1951[see Hinayana]. 1956A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. i. vii. 89 The Mahayanian Buddhists in China. 1961J. Masters Road past Mandalay xiii. 162 They worshipped God according to the rites of the Mahayana and Hinayana. 1971Sun (Ceylon) 17 Sept. 5/6 This impact of Japan and Mahayana Buddhism on him opened a further avenue for his missionary zeal. 1973Times 14 Apr. (Nepal Suppl.) p. ii/3 Although several early statues of the historic Buddha Sākyamuni survive, the favourite motifs of Mahāyāna art were the five Celestial or Dhyāni Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas, whose images became the centres of devotional cults. |