hinayana buddhism

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsHinayana

   BroaderTheravada

Questions about hinayana buddhism

What does hinayana buddhism mean?

hinayana buddhism means "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".

What is another word for hinayana buddhism?

Close synonyms include Hinayana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hinayana buddhism a common word?

hinayana buddhism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.