Word: hinayana
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...discipline, which foreshadowed a great split in Buddhism. At the third council, about 244 B.C., it was decided to send out missionaries to other countries; and at the fourth, in the 1st century A.D., the big split crystallized. It divides the Buddhist world to this day between the traditional Hinayana Buddhists, who look upon Buddha as a human teacher, and the more recent and increasingly influential Mahayana Buddhists, who worship him as a divine being...
...Hinayana countries include Ceylon, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand. Mahayana countries include China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Mongolia, Nepal. India, where Buddhism began, now contains only a small number of Buddhists. Most Indians are Hindu...
...acquisition is the Young Men's Buddhist Association. It was modeled after the Y.M.C.A. by its founder, former British Army Colonel John Ryan, now a Buddhist priest. Ryan, who pinch-hits as American propagandist, giving weekly showings of U.S. Information Service movies in the town hall, embraces the Hinayana or southern variety of Buddhism...
...sages heard discussions of such topics as the Problem of the Person in Hinayana Buddhism, the Trivialization of Mathematical Logic, Entic Parallelism, and a Practical Philosophy of Cosmic Energy. Then Czechoslovakia's Arnost Kolman (who spent 30 years at Moscow University) rose to read a paper innocently entitled: "The Tasks of Contemporary Philosophy in the Struggle for the New Humanism...
...India the intellectual classes were egoists and Buddha could not altogether enlighten them. Still he did not wish entirely to withhold his teachings. So he taught them the Hinayana (Little Vehicle) which was best suited to their intellectual capacities...