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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 | ||
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