Mahayana

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Sanskrit महायान (mahāyāna, literally “Great Vehicle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑːhəˈjɑːnə/, /ˌmʌhəˈjɑːnə/

Proper noun

Mahayana

1. (Buddhism) A school of Buddhism widely practised in East Asia and Vietnam which accepts non-Pali canon scriptures, recognizes a broader array of buddhas and bodhisattvas, and whose spiritual objective is to achieve Buddhahood and liberate other beings, rather than simply to achieve personal enlightenment, as in Theravada Buddhism.

Hyponyms

• (school of Buddhism): Zen

Derived terms

• Mahayanism, Mahayanist, Mahayanistic

Translations

school of Buddhism

• Burmese: မဟာယာန (my) (ma.hayana.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大乘佛教 (Dàchéng Fójiào), 北傳佛教／北传佛教 (Běichuán Fójiào)

• Esperanto: Mahajano
• Indonesian: Mahayana
• Irish: Búdachas Mahayana m, Mahayana
• Japanese: 大乗 (ja) (だいじょう, daijō), 大乗仏教 (ja) (Daijō Bukkyō)
• Kalmyk: Ик Көлгн (Ik Kölgn)
• Khmer: មហាយាន (mɔɔhaayiən)
• Korean: 대승불교 (ko) (daeseungbulgyo)
• Lao: ມະຫາຍານ
• Malay: Mahayana
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: Маха́яна f (Maxájana)
• Thai: มหายาน (th) (má-hǎa-yaan)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Đại thừa

See also

• Madhyamika

References

• “Mahayana”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit महायान (mahāyāna, literally “Great Vehicle”).

Proper noun

Mahayana m (genitive Mahayana)

1. (Buddhism) Mahayana

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Mahayana	Mhahayana	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.