Hinayana

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Hinayana

(Sk.)

The “ Smaller Vehicle”; a Scripture and a School of the Northern Buddhists, opposed to the Mahayana, “the Greater Vehicle”, in Tibet. Both schools are mystical. (See Mahayana.) Also in exoteric superstition the lowest form of transmigration (TG).

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See also: Mahayana

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• Quotes: H. P. Blavatsky

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