Noun: Hinayana ,hi-nu'yaa-nu or ,hee-nu'yaa-nu
- A major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts
- 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
- Hinayana Buddhism
Type of: Buddhism, Theravada, Theravada Buddhism
Encyclopedia: Hinayana