What is the meaning of Hinayana?

noun

  • A major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts.
  • 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.
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