Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c7.s2.t1.1

c7.s2.t1.1

In the face of such descriptions of Buddha, it would have been difficult for the later Hinayāna schools to sublimate the human elements in him, had it not been for certain expressions in some of the earlier works of the Piṭaka, which lent themselves to other interpretations. Some of these expressions are:—