Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts;
2.
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;
[syn: Hinayana, Hinayana Buddhism]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hinayana \Hinayana\ n.
1. a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation
through one's own efforts.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing
personal salvation through one's own efforts; chiefly in
Sri Lanka (Ceylon); Myanmar (Burma); Thailand; Cambodia.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Hinayana
n 1: a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation
through one's own efforts
2: 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
[syn: Hinayana, Hinayana Buddhism]