Mahayana (English spelling)

Japanese: Mahāyāna(英語表記)Mahayana
Mahayana (English spelling)

...These are scriptures such as the Prajnaparamita Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra, and the Amitabha Sutra. In these scriptures, they called their new Buddhist movement Mahayana (Mahayana), meaning a large vehicle that aims to save all people, and they denigrated the traditional old Buddhism as Hinayana (Hinayana), meaning a small vehicle only for a limited number of monks. What is noteworthy is that they strongly emphasized the worship of scriptures, which was not seen in the old Buddhist scriptures, saying that "even the four-line poems of this scripture will bring great merit if you accept, recite, explain, and even copy them."

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…《般若経》《法華経》《華厳経》《阿弥陀経》などの経典群である。これらの経典のなかで,彼らは自らの新しい仏教運動を,〈あらゆる人々の救いをめざす大きな乗り物〉という意味をこめて〈大乗〉(マハーヤーナMahāyāna)と称し,従来の旧仏教を〈限られた出家者だけの小さな乗物〉という意味で〈小乗〉(ヒーナヤーナHīnayāna)と貶称した。注目すべきは,〈この経典の四行詩でも,受持・読誦(どくじゆ)・解説(げせつ)し,さらに書写すれば非常な功徳がある〉という旧仏典には見られなかった〈経典崇拝〉を強く打ち出していることである。…

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