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Definition of Mahayanist
1. Noun. An adherent of Mahayana Buddhism.
Generic synonyms: Adherent, Disciple
Derivative terms: Mahayana, Mahayana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mahayanist
Literary usage of Mahayanist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1919)
"Now to become a Buddha is, in the eyes of the Mahayanist, to become one in essence
with the Infinite. Accordingly, a Buddha may be said to be the Trikaya ..."
2. On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. by Thomas Watters (1904)
"The first in the list of subjects is the shih-shan (-{* ||) or "Ten Virtues" that
is, the ten excellent precepts which the Mahayanist undertook to observe. ..."
3. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1904)
"In taking this he was not acting in strict accordance with Mahayanist discipline,
and I-ching states positively that milk was not a lawful article of food ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"It is based on three Mahayanist books, the greater and lesser Sukhavati Vyuha
or 'Description of the Happy Land,' and the ' Meditation on Eternal Life'; ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... the celestial beings, and the "body of fabrication," the illusory form of an
earthly Buddha such as Gautama. The Mahayanist belief in the powerful and ..."
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