Hinayana

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noun

1. a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts
• Derivationally related forms:
Hinayanist
• Hypernyms:
Buddhism
• Member Meronyms:
Hinayanist
2. 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
• Syn:
Hinayana Buddhism
• Hypernyms:
Theravada, Theravada Buddhism