Mahayana

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Mahayana

1. (Buddhism) One of the two primary branches of Buddhism that emerged around the 1st century BCE, which accepts non-Pali canon scriptures, and emphasizes the path of bodhisattva.

   Synonym: Great Vehicle

   Coordinate term: Theravada

Hyponyms

• (school of Buddhism): Zen

Derived terms

• Mahayanic
• Mahayanism
• Mahayanist
• Mahayanistic

Translations

school of Buddhism

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

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

• Esperanto: Mahajano
• Greek: μαχαγιάνα f (machagiána)
• Hungarian: mahájána
• 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 (ma hn)
• Malay: Mahayana
• Mongolian: Их хөлгөн (Ix xölgön)
• Polish: mahajana (pl) f
• Russian: Маха́яна f (Maxájana)
• Thai: มหายาน (th) (má-hǎa-yaan)
• Tibetan: ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ (theg pa chen po)
• Vietnamese: Đại thừa (vi)

See also

• Madhyamika

References

• “Mahayana”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

• Mahayana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Irish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Mahayana m (genitive Mahayana)

1. (Buddhism) Mahayana

Mutation

Mutated forms of Mahayana

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Mahayana	Mhahayana	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.