Hinayana
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts
Types & categories
- Buddhism hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Hinayanist member meronym
Related & opposite
- Hinayanist derivation
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- Theravada hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | Hinayanist |
| 1 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | Hinayanist |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | Buddhism |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | Theravada |