Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c5.s2.t13.9

c5.s2.t13.9

(iii) of the indispensability of the application (prayoga) of prajñā for destroying duḥkha and obtaining sukha (i.e., final beatitude, Nirvāṇa), one of the most important tenets of the Hinayānic schools;⁵ (iv) of samyagdṛṣṭi, śraddhendriya as not laukika (worldly). the *Kathāvatthu*¹ adding that the Mahāsānghikas hold that old age and death could neither be lokiya (worldly) nor lokuttara (transcendental), because they are aparinipphanna, (unmade),² and because the "decay and death of supramundane thing is supramundane and cannot be mundane";³