Mahayana

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)  A school of Buddhism widely practised in East Asia and Vietnam which accepts non-Pali canon scriptures, recognizes a broader array of buddhas and bodhisattvas, and whose spiritual objective is to achieve Buddhahood and liberate other beings, rather than simply to achieve personal enlightenment, as in Theravada Buddhism.

Hyponyms

 * Zen

Derived terms

 * Mahayanism, Mahayanist, Mahayanistic

Translations

 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 大乘佛教, 北傳佛教
 * Esperanto: Mahajano
 * Indonesian: Mahayana
 * Irish: Búdachas Mahayana, Mahayana
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: Ик Көлгн
 * Khmer: មហាយាន
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ມະຫາຍານ
 * Malay: Mahayana
 * Mongolian:
 * Russian: Маха́яна
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Mahayana