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MAHAYANA (" Great Vehicle ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 395 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAHAYANA (" See also:Great Vehicle ") , the name given to the later See also:Buddhism, the popular See also:religion which embraced all the See also:people and had its See also:pantheon of Buddhas and Bodhisatvas, with attendant deities and demons, spacious temples and images, pompous ceremonial and noisy festivals. It was thus contrasted with the Hinayana (" Little Vehicle ") of the See also:primitive Buddhism which had been only for the select few.

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