Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c7.s2.1
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c7.s2.1
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c7.s2.1
In a land where the tendency to deify saints is so strong, it is greatly to the credit of the early Hīnayānists that they were able to retain the human conception of Buddha even a century or two after his actual existence, when the scriptures may be regarded as having been put into a definite shape. They gave expression to their conception of Buddha in the following words: