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Mahāyāna (/ˌmɑːhəˈjɑːnə/; "Great Vehicle") is a term for a
broad group of
Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices.
Mahāyāna Buddhism developed...
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Mahāyāna Sūtras are a
broad genre of
Buddhist sutra scriptures that are
accepted as
canonical and as
buddhavacana ("Buddha word") in
Mahāyāna Buddhism...
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India indicate that both
Mahāyāna and non-
Mahāyāna monks could be
found in the same monasteries, with the
difference that
Mahāyāna monks worshipped figures...
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confirmation or
prediction from a
living Buddha that this will be so. In
Mahayana Buddhism, a
bodhisattva refers to
anyone who has
generated bodhicitta,...
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Mahāyāna,
literally the "Great Vehicle." The most
common classification among scholars is threefold: Theravāda,
Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna....
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virtuous to non-
Mahāyāna sutras. The
Mahāyāna sūtras are
traditionally considered by
Mahāyāna Buddhists to be the word of the Buddha.
Mahāyāna Buddhists explained...
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vegetarianism is the
practice of
vegetarianism by
significant portions of
Mahayana Buddhist monks and nuns (as well as laypersons) and some
Buddhists of other...
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rebirth as well as the
dissolution of the skandhas. In some
Mahāyāna scriptures,
notably the
Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, parinirvāṇa is
described as the...
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accepted the
authority of
these Mahāyāna texts. Paramārtha
states that the ****kuṭika sect did not
accept the
Mahāyāna sūtras as
buddhavacana ("words of...
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around the
first or
second century. Hīnayāna was
often contrasted with
Mahāyāna,
which means the "great vehicle". In 1950 the
World Fellowship of Buddhists...
