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  Dharma Data: Hinayana
 

 

 

A derogatory name meaning "Small Vehicle", given by the Mahayana to the early Buddhist schools.

See Buddhist Traditions.

N. Dutt, Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its relation to Hinayana. London, 1930.

 
   
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