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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
Hinayana
    n 1: a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation
         through one's own efforts
    2: 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
       [syn: Hinayana, Hinayana Buddhism]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hinayana \Hinayana\ n.
   1. a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation
      through one's own efforts.
      [WordNet 1.5]

   2. one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing
      personal salvation through one's own efforts; chiefly in
      Sri Lanka (Ceylon); Myanmar (Burma); Thailand; Cambodia.
      [WordNet 1.5]

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