MAHAYANISM Antonyms

• a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts

• an offensive name for the early conservative Theravada Buddhism; it died out in India but survived in Sri Lanka and was taken from there to other regions of southwestern Asia

• the quality of being individual

• a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence

• the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs

• impatience with annoyances

• unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs

• an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior

• the property of being narrow; having little width

• an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior

• a restriction of range or scope

• a small margin

• concern for your own interests and welfare

• stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

• one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing personal salvation through your own efforts; a conservative form of Buddhism that adheres to Pali scriptures and the non-theistic ideal of self purification to nirvana; the dominant religion of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand and Laos and Cambodia