Mahāyāna
| Key Term | mahāyāna |
|---|---|
| Hover Popup Choices | great vehicle |
| 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 |
| Basic Meaning | The Buddhist system of ideas and practices which developed around the beginning of the common era highlighting altruism and illusory nature of phenomena. |
| Has the Sense of | A spiritual system which is greater and higher than the early schools of Buddhism, which are labelled as lesser vehicle. |
| Did you know? | The adherents of early Buddhist schools contended that Mahāyāna teachings are original teachings of the Buddha. |
| Related Topic Pages | https://www.bhutan.virginia.edu/subjects/8260/text-node/49751/nojs |
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