See also:

• MAHAYANA (" Great Vehicle ")

MAHAYANA (" See also:

• GREAT

Great Vehicle ")  , the name given to the later See also:

• BUDDHISM

Buddhism, the popular See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion which embraced all the See also:

• PEOPLE

people and had its See also:

• PANTHEON (Lat. pantheum or pantheon; Gr. srav& ov, all-holy, from re, s, all, and Oeor god)

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

primitive Buddhism which had been only for the select few .