Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c13.112

c13.112

Madhyamā pratipad, 46, 215 Madhyas, 80, 82, 85 Madhyamikas. See Nāgārjuna. Mādhyamikavṛtti on Nirvāṇa, 198 Madhyāntika, 18, 32 Maggas, 137, 175-6, 198, 249, 286 Maggas and Phalas, correspondence of Bhūmis with, 259-260, 269, 276-7, 286-8 Mahāparinibbāna Sutta, 160, 161 Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra, 114, 119, 325, 326 Mahāsāṅghikas, 25f; career of, 21-3; Hīnayānic doctrines of, 28-30; Buddha's birth according to, 111; Mahāyānic traces in the tenets of, 31 Mahāvastu, 64; bhūmis treated in, 241, 286 Mahāyāna, authenticity of, 57f, 68-74; Asaṅga on antiquity of, 58-9; beginning of, 1, 34-45; contribution of Sarvāstivāda to, 26-7; doctrines of, 34-5; forerunners of, 27-8; geographical data about the origin of, 40-3; Hīnayāna earlier than, 52, 57; Hīnayāna inferior to, 75-80; Jātakas contain traces of, 284-5; Nirvāṇa according to, 199-201; origin of, 28; persons responsible for handing down, 62-3; reasons for the superiority of, 57-8, 133; sacrificing spirit of the followers of, 77; sources for the early history of, 1. See Hīnayāna. Mahāyānic Vinaya, 290f, 315; influence of Hīnayānic Vinaya on, 290-322 Mahāyāna works, chronological arrangement of, 328; nature of the contents of, 43-5 Mahāmati, 128 Maitreya, 112, 324 Maitrī, 12, 57, 94, 258, 316; practice of, 307-9 Majjhima-janapada, 14-15, 28