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Sravakayana is one of the three yanas
Yana (Buddhism)

Yana refers to a mode or method of spiritual practice in Buddhism, and in particular to divisions of various schools of Buddhism according to their type of practice....
 known to Mahayana Buddhism
Mahayana

Mahayana is one of the two main existing schools of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophy and practice. It was History of Buddhism in India....
. It translates literally as the "vehicle of hearers [i.e. disciples]". The term is used by some Mahayana
Mahayana

Mahayana is one of the two main existing schools of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophy and practice. It was History of Buddhism in India....
 Buddhists
Buddhism

Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
 to describe one hypothetical path to enlightenment. Sravakayana is the path that meets the goals of a Arhat
Arhat

In the shramana traditions of ancient India arhat or arahant signified a spiritual practitioner who had?to use an expression common in the tipitaka?"laid down the burden"?and realised the goal of nirvana, the culmination of the spiritual life ....
 – an individual who achieves liberation as a result of listening to the teachings (or lineage) of a Bodhisattva Buddha. In a Theravadin context, the Sravakayana is said to lead to Sravakabuddha-hood.






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Sravakayana is one of the three yanas
Yana (Buddhism)

Yana refers to a mode or method of spiritual practice in Buddhism, and in particular to divisions of various schools of Buddhism according to their type of practice....
 known to Mahayana Buddhism
Mahayana

Mahayana is one of the two main existing schools of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophy and practice. It was History of Buddhism in India....
. It translates literally as the "vehicle of hearers [i.e. disciples]". The term is used by some Mahayana
Mahayana

Mahayana is one of the two main existing schools of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophy and practice. It was History of Buddhism in India....
 Buddhists
Buddhism

Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
 to describe one hypothetical path to enlightenment. Sravakayana is the path that meets the goals of a Arhat
Arhat

In the shramana traditions of ancient India arhat or arahant signified a spiritual practitioner who had?to use an expression common in the tipitaka?"laid down the burden"?and realised the goal of nirvana, the culmination of the spiritual life ....
 – an individual who achieves liberation as a result of listening to the teachings (or lineage) of a Bodhisattva Buddha. In a Theravadin context, the Sravakayana is said to lead to Sravakabuddha-hood. In that context, Sravakabuddhas are not able to be the first in their age to turn the wheel of Dharma
Dharma

The term , is an Indian Indian philosophy and Indian religions term, that means one's righteous duty or any virtuous path in the common sense of the term....
.

Sravakayana is also sometimes used as a euphemism for "Hinayana" (the "lesser vehicle") in reference to certain early schools of Buddhism, however the latter term most often was used to include both Sravakayana and Pratyekayana, in order to distinguish them from the Mahayana
Mahayana

Mahayana is one of the two main existing schools of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophy and practice. It was History of Buddhism in India....
.

See also


  • For a discussion of early Buddhist schools, see early Buddhist schools
    Early Buddhist schools

    The Early Buddhist schools are those schools into which, according to most scholars, the Buddhist monasticism Sangha initially split, due originally to differences in Vinaya, and later also due to doctrinal differences and geographical separateness of groups of monks....
    .


  • For a discussion of the nomenclature problem for pre-Mahayana Buddhism, see Hinayana
    Hinayana

    Hinayana is a Sanskrit and Pali term literally meaning:, "the low vehicle", "the inferior vehicle", or "the deficient vehicle", where "vehicle" means "a way of going to enlightenment"....
    .


  • For a discussion of the spiritual goal of a Sravaka, see Sravakabuddha.


  • For a discussion of Sravakas largely from a Theravada
    Theravada

    Theravada...
     perspective, see Sravaka
    Sravaka

    Sravaka or Shravaka or Savaka means "a hearer" or, more generally, "disciple."This term is used by both Buddhists and Jains. In Jainism, a shravaka is any lay Jain....
    .