Both schools existed but the Mahayana was the more flourishing. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2] Reference
The Tibetans and Pema Chödrön practice a form of Buddhism known as Mahayana. From Wordnik.com. [Beginner’s Grace] Reference
Two conspicuous features of the Mahayana are the worship of Bodhisattvas and idealist philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2] Reference
Mahayana, meaning a vast vehicle of mind, can be either a causal vehicle that leads to a goal or a resultant one to which one is led. From Wordnik.com. [Buddha-Nature, Day One of a Discourse on Uttaratantra ��� Part Two: The First Three Verses of Chapter One] Reference
The main point in mind in Mahayana is helping others. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Commentary on Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices ��� Day One] Reference
To step up to the first vehicle of Mahayana through which. From Wordnik.com. [Verses to Begin Kalachakra Study or Practice] Reference
It is particularly at variance with the Mahayana approach. From Wordnik.com. [Speech to the Second Gelug Conference] Reference
The more popular Mahayana school virtually deified Gotama. From Wordnik.com. [Buddha]
From the Mahayana point of view, we help others from the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [The Compassionate Heart of Bodhichitta] Reference
Theg-chen bstan-pa'i snying-po (The Essence of the Mahayana Teachings). From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� Bibliography] Reference
Siam, while the schools of the Mahayana predominate in Cashmere, Thibet. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Japan] Reference
Chinese and the Tibetan people share common spiritual heritage in Mahayana. From Wordnik.com. [An Appeal To All Chinese Spiritual Brothers And Sisters] Reference
Mahayana adds to them bodhichitta to eliminate all obscuration completely. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Commentary on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path] Reference
Then to distinguish our practice as Mahayana, we reaffirm our bodhichitta aim. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Two: The Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to the Dharma] Reference
The Buddha's Dharma, can be divided to two vehicles, the Hinayana and the Mahayana. From Wordnik.com. [Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama] Reference
Mahayanasutralamkara (Theg-pa chen-po'i mdo-sde rgyan; Filigree of Mahayana Sutras). From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� Bibliography] Reference
Where, how, and why Hinayana and Mahayana developed as separate sects, is not yet studied. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
Mahayana lineages is whether or not they have the methods of generating bodhichitta and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama] Reference
It is quite easy to skip over these stages and try to go straight to this highest Mahayana motivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Compassionate Heart of Bodhichitta] Reference
The epic presentations and fabulous accounts comprise The Basket of the Mahayana or Bodhisattva Sutras. From Wordnik.com. [The Twelve Scriptural Categories] Reference
This follows from the Mahayana usage of the same term rigs for Buddha-nature (Tib. sangs-rgyas-kyi rigs). From Wordnik.com. [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference
Kalachakra means “cycles of time” and is a Mahayana Buddhist teaching in the highest class of tantra. From Wordnik.com. [Brochure for the Graz Kalachakra Initiation 2002] Reference
Within the Mahayana tradition, the four immeasurable attitudes are mentioned in several popular sutras, such as. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon] Reference
The decisive explications make up The Basket of Special Topics of Knowledge, which is both Mahayana and Hinayana. From Wordnik.com. [The Twelve Scriptural Categories] Reference
The general Mahayana, like the Hinayana, can be subdivided into two vehicles: the Paramitayana and the Mantrayana. From Wordnik.com. [Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama] Reference
The second form, Mahayana ( "great vehicle") Buddhism, is the dominant form in Tibet, China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodian Buddhism] Reference
We say we are Mahayana practitioners, but if we do not always examine the actual Mahayana practices, this would never do. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Commentary on Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices ��� Day One] Reference
A Corpus of Full Use, a Sambhogakaya, is an assortment of bodies that make full use of the vast-minded Mahayana teachings. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of The Foundation for Good Qualities ��� Session Two: Further Points Concerning a Precious Human Rebirth, and Death and Impermanence] Reference
In Mahayana terminology, this means gaining nonconceptual cognition of voidness (stong-pa-nyid, Skt. shunyata, emptiness). From Wordnik.com. [Cognition of the Two Truths in the Gelug Sautrantika, Chittamatra, Svatantrika, and Prasangika Systems] Reference
Later Buddhists of the Mahayana school would claim that he was so wholly infused by Nibbana that he was identical with it. From Wordnik.com. [Buddha]
In Gelug terminology, this is the type of equanimity developed exclusively in Mahayana (thun-mong ma-yin-pa'i btang-snyoms). From Wordnik.com. [The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon] Reference
In the Mahayana teachings, it also says we need to try to ignore our own selfish purposes and work for the sake of the masses of others. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Commentary on Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices ��� Day One] Reference
Whereas, in the Mahayana, or Greater Vehicle, we see a system characterized by that increased ease and laxity, which too often accompany. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Japan] Reference
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