Hinayana

Words with a similar base: Hinayana, Hinayana_Buddhism

'Hinayana'

[hinayana.n.01] as in: a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts

'Hinayana'

[hinayana.n.02] as in: 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