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|Glossary-Term=mahāyāna
|Glossary-Term=Mahāyāna
|Glossary-HoverChoices=great vehicle
|Glossary-Tibetan=ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
|Glossary-Tibetan=ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
|Glossary-Wylie=theg pa chen po
|Glossary-Wylie=theg pa chen po
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|Glossary-Chinese=大乘
|Glossary-Chinese=大乘
|Glossary-Pinyin=dasheng
|Glossary-Pinyin=dasheng
|Glossary-Definition=The Buddhist system of ideas and practices which developed around the beginning of the common era highlighting altruism and illusory nature of phenomena.
|Glossary-English=Great Vehicle
|Glossary-Senses=A spiritual system which is greater and higher than the early schools of Buddhism, which are labelled as lesser vehicle.
|Glossary-EnglishRB=greater approach
|Glossary-DidYouKnow=The adherents of early Buddhist schools contended that Mahāyāna teachings are original teachings of the Buddha.
|Glossary-EnglishIW=great vehicle
|Glossary-Definition=Mahāyāna or Great Vehicle refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era focussing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through realisation of the wisdom of emptiness and cultivation of compassion.
|Glossary-Senses=It is known as Great Vehicle in comparison to the earlier schools of Buddhism which aimed only to reach individual liberation. Thus, this system claims to be superior to the early Buddhist schools in terms of the philosophical understanding of reality and the moral scope of rescuing all sentient being.
|Glossary-RelatedTopics=https://www.bhutan.virginia.edu/subjects/8260/text-node/49751/nojs
|Glossary-RelatedTopics=https://www.bhutan.virginia.edu/subjects/8260/text-node/49751/nojs
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Revision as of 08:48, 1 October 2020

Key Term Mahāyāna
In Tibetan Script ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration theg pa chen po
Devanagari Sanskrit Script महायान
Romanized Sanskrit mahāyāna
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering thekpa chenpo
Chinese Script 大乘
Chinese Pinyin dasheng
English Standard Great Vehicle
Richard Barron's English Term greater approach
Ives Waldo's English Term great vehicle
Basic Meaning Mahāyāna or Great Vehicle refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era focussing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through realisation of the wisdom of emptiness and cultivation of compassion.
Has the Sense of It is known as Great Vehicle in comparison to the earlier schools of Buddhism which aimed only to reach individual liberation. Thus, this system claims to be superior to the early Buddhist schools in terms of the philosophical understanding of reality and the moral scope of rescuing all sentient being.
Related Topic Pages https://www.bhutan.virginia.edu/subjects/8260/text-node/49751/nojs
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