Examples of 'mahayana' in a sentence

Meaning of "mahayana"

Mahayana is a major branch of Buddhism that originated in India and is practiced mainly in East Asia
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  • 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.

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We also organize workshops to study mahayana sutras.
Wherein the mahayana admits its own eisegeses.
The wish to eliminate the suffering of all living beings is the mahayana motivation.
Mahayana is the greater vehicle that includes everybody.
They belong to the mahayana school.
The mahayana instruction for ejection of consciousness at death.
Please teach me the mahayana doctrine.
Mahayana in the two kinds of.
It is what distinguishes the mahayana path or indicates a truly compassionate person.
Mahayana farming is the very embodiment of life in accordance with nature.
The scheme is also found in Mahayana texts.
Mahayana celibate orders generally are not quite so strict about not touching.
The remnant monks were of the Mahayana school.
The mahayana instruction for ejection of consciousness at death is the five strengths.
At that time there was nothing called Mahayana.

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Mahayana proposes that everything exists in both an absolute and relative or conventional way.
Transform everything into a Mahayana pathway mind.
It is the mahayana tradition and discipline that hold the hinayana and vajrayana together.
This is the mind stream of a Mahayana practitioner.
Mahayana Buddhism accepts the cosmology as above.
Such practices are referred to as the Mahayana path.
Mahayana Buddhism offers a remarkably rich cosmology.
Specifically the teachings of the Mahayana sutras.
In the Mahayana we accumulate merit with compassion.
This is the main path of Mahayana practice.
This is the Mahayana teaching of instantaneous enlightenment.
Theravada is more conservative than the Mahayana.
The word Mahayana does not appear in it.
The kingdom is primarily associated with the Mahayana.
The Mahayana commentarial and exegetical literature is vast.
It is often held to by synonymous with Mahayana.
The origins of the Mahayana are not completely understood.
Mahayana Buddhism also has a level of mysticism involved.
They esteemed Mahayana and felt deep joy in it.
Mahayana is one of the two major schools of Buddhism.
They respected the Mahayana and deeply delighted in it.
Because it lies at the very root of the Mahayana.
The Mahayana teaching shows us a way to dispel illusion.
That class of person is ready for Mahayana instruction.
It is recited by adherents of Mahayana schools of Buddhism regardless of sectarian affiliation.
Sanskrit literature was preferred by the Mahayana.
Mahayana schools classify Buddhist teachings in turns of a sequential scheme of development.
That is the essence of Mahayana teaching.
Mahayana Buddhism is considered to be one of the two major schools of Buddhism.
Is also present in the Mahayana context.
It is an offshoot of Mahayana Buddhism and it teaches about the mind itself.
One fulfills all the practices of the Mahayana.
The priests of this Mahayana sutra should therefore be seated even higher.
Such is the true meaning of the Mahayana teaching.
Theravada and Mahayana teachings are followed and used as an important foundation for Vajrayana.

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