English noun: Hinayana | |||
1. | Hinayana (group) a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts | ||
Broader (hypernym) | Buddhism | ||
Member holonym | Hinayanist | ||
2. | Hinayana (cognition) an offensive name for the early conservative Theravada Buddhism; it died out in India but survived in Sri Lanka and was taken from there to other regions of southwestern Asia | ||
Synonyms | Hinayana Buddhism | ||
Broader (hypernym) | Theravada, Theravada Buddhism | ||