Sanskrit Noun
Mahāyāna
Great Vehicle
महायान
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
大乘
Basic Meaning
Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.
| Term Variations | |
|---|---|
| Key Term | Mahāyāna |
| Topic Variation | Mahāyāna |
| Tibetan | ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ། ( thekpa chenpo) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | theg pa chen po ( thekpa chenpo) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | महायान |
| Romanized Sanskrit | mahāyāna |
| Chinese | 大乘 |
| Chinese Pinyin | dasheng |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | Great Vehicle |
| Richard Barron's English Term | greater approach |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | great vehicle |
| Term Information | |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. |
| Related Topic Pages | Https://www.bhutan.virginia.edu/subjects/8260/text-node/49751/nojs |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Definitions | |
| Tshig mdzod Chen mo | བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཐེག་པ་སྟེ།་ཐེག་དམན་ཉན་རང་ལས་ཆེན་པོ་བདུན་གྱིས་འཕགས་པས་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཞེས་བྱའོ།། |
| Wikipedia | wikipedia:Mahayana |
