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How should we police the use of the word Hinayana?
I am not particular about being called Hinayana or Theravada, but Hinayana has a derogatory connotation as viewed by some.
As highlighted in the answer of Theravada this word is in the Sinhala ...
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How should we police the use of the word Hinayana?
As one of the main users of this word on this site, here is my position on this again:
I don't use (lower-case) "hinayana" to refer to Theravada, I use it to mean "primitive/basic level of ...
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How should we police the use of the word Hinayana?
A very good question MatthewMartin.I really appreciate this question,thank you.
I am a Srilankan Theravada Buddhist (I am supposed to call myself a hinayana Buddhist as to this word) and here's what ...
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How should we police the use of the word Hinayana?
I feel some sympathy towards Andrei's use of the word. Andrei (for one) isn't intending to use as a synonym for "Theravada" (and so the counter-argument in @Theravada's answer doesn't apply to it).
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I am not sure how to address this but mentioning the traditions becomes very difficult to do when you are sourcing the knowledge from many traditions and sub traditions. Say in the same sentence you ...
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What is Buddhism and who is Buddhist?
Can we please get this sorted out once and for all?
If you do see a mistake, then thank you for commenting as you did, to help correct it.
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What is Buddhism and who is Buddhist?
Tibetan Buddhism and Vajrayana are certainly recognized as part of Buddhism on this site.
I was genuinely unaware that chakras are a part of this tradition and so was another moderator.
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Is it not possible to split this platform into Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism?
I disagree that Buddhism SE should be split into different sects for the following reasons.
Firstly, the fundamental doctrinal core of the different sects or traditions are the same.
In Christianity,...
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Is it not possible to split this platform into Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism?
I don't think it's possible (i.e. I doubt that Stack Exchange would support it, and/or that sufficiently many users would support it).
I guess that, to do it, people (i.e. you) would need to:
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Is there a better term than Hinayana that we should be using?
I believe the term Fundamental Vehicle is a good substitute for Hinayana and provides a suitable counterpart to the Great Vehicle or Mahayana.
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I added this to my Bio:
Also a practitioner of Samatha and Vipassana a form of Buddhist meditation mainly from the Pāli Canon (Theravāda). Also a non sectarian practitioner of Dhamma largely ...
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We have to work within the limitations of the stack exchange engine, which was built for software development questions and then later applied to a bewildering variety of topics from cooking to, well, ...
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Hey if someone does not believe that they are indeed believing in the correct path wouldn't it be crazy to say anything that involves that certain belief?
The thing you need to understand is in ...
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