mahayana
Meaning of mahayana
noun
one of the two major traditions of Buddhism, now practised especially in China, Tibet, Japan, and Korea. The tradition emerged around the 1st century AD and is typically concerned with personal spiritual practice and the ideal of the bodhisattva.
from Sanskrit, from mahā ‘great’ + yāna ‘vehicle’.
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Hyphenation of mahayana
ma-hayana
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- mahayana is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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Words that rhyme with mahayana
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