Hinayana

Meaning of Hinayana

noun

a pejorative name given by the followers of Mahayana Buddhism to the more conservative schools of early Buddhism. The tradition died out in India, but it survived in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) as the Theravada school and was taken from there to other regions of SE Asia.

from Sanskrit hīna ‘lesser’ + yāna ‘vehicle’.

Information about Hinayana

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of Hinayana is: Hinayanas.
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Hyphenation of Hinayana

Hi-nayana

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • Hinayana is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with Hinayana

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