RELIGIONS
BUDDHISM
Question
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Ramananda
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X U Burial
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Mahayana Buddhism
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Theravada Buddhism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mahāyāna Buddhism (often also called Bodhisattvayāna, “Bodhisattva Vehicle") is based principally upon the path of a bodhisattva. This path was seen as higher and nobler than becoming an arhat or a solitary Buddha.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mahayana is a philosophical movement that proclaimed the possibility of universal salvation, offering assistance to practitioners in the form of compassionate beings called bodhisattvas. The goal was to open up the possibility of buddhahood (becoming a Buddha) to all sentient beings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mahayana, (Sanskrit: “Greater Vehicle”) movement that arose within Indian Buddhism around the beginning of the Common Era and became by the 9th century the dominant influence on the Buddhist cultures of Central and East Asia, which it remains today.