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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 ("
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Great Vehicle ")  , the name given to the later
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Buddhism, the popular
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religion which embraced all the
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people and had its
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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
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primitive Buddhism which had been only for the select few .

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