tradition

Mahāyāna

Traditions

The great-vehicle family of Buddhist schools teaching bodhisattva paths and emptiness talk. Not Theravāda as the elders lineage, and not Vajrayāna as the tantric vehicle alone.

Also known as Mahayana

Buddhist traditions

  • Lotus Sūtra is historically related to Mahāyāna.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra is a foundational Mahāyāna scripture of the one vehicle and bodhisattva path — a named historical seat of the Mahāyāna family, not Theravāda identity and not a later East Asian school alone.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    historically related to · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.