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==Categories of Vehicle== | ==Categories of Vehicle== | ||
The buddhist teachings are often classified according to yanas, most commonly into the '''[[two yanas]]''', the [[basic vehicle|'basic' or 'individual' vehicle]] (Skt. ''hinayana'') and the [[mahayana|'greater' or 'universal' vehicle]] (Skt. ''mahayana''), or the '''[[three yanas]]'''. The [[Nyingma]] tradition also classifies the teachings into the '''[[nine yanas]]'''. | The buddhist teachings are often classified according to yanas, most commonly into | ||
*the '''[[two yanas]]''', the [[basic vehicle|'basic' or 'individual' vehicle]] (Skt. ''hinayana'') and the [[mahayana|'greater' or 'universal' vehicle]] (Skt. ''mahayana''), or | |||
*the '''[[three yanas]]'''. | |||
The [[Nyingma]] tradition also classifies the teachings into the '''[[nine yanas]]'''. | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 16:36, 11 March 2010
Vehicle (Skt. yāna; Tib. tekpa; Wyl. theg pa) — that which carries us along the spiritual path to our final destination.
Alak Zenkar Rinpoche writes:[1]
- [...]What is meant by the term ‘vehicle’ or yana[?] It is said in The Condensed Sutra:[2]
- This vehicle is the supreme of vehicles for reaching
- The vast sky-like palace of happiness and bliss.
- Riding in this all beings will reach nirvana.
- This refers to the literal meaning of the Sanskrit term yana, a vehicle or means of conveyance, since it is that which carries us along the paths and bhumis, bringing us ever greater enlightened qualities.
Categories of Vehicle
The buddhist teachings are often classified according to yanas, most commonly into
- the two yanas, the 'basic' or 'individual' vehicle (Skt. hinayana) and the 'greater' or 'universal' vehicle (Skt. mahayana), or
- the three yanas.
The Nyingma tradition also classifies the teachings into the nine yanas.
Notes
- ↑ In A Brief Presentation of the Nine Yanas by Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
- ↑ i.e., The Condensed Prajnaparamita Sutra