Mahāyāna
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
great vows of the Mahāyāna · the Great Vehicle · the Mahāyāna · the great vehicle
spoken of as
1 expressionthe Mahāyāna1 mention
Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana (Kawi)
Already his way of holding to the great vows of the Mahāyāna showed the signs of perfection.
in the texts
Abhisamayālaṅkāravivaraṇa
The 'great vehicle' whose path, practices, and superiority over the śrāvaka and pratyekabuddha vehicles is asserted throughout.
// In the [four] meditative absorptions and formless [attainments], in giving and the rest, in the path, in loving-kindness and the rest, in the union of having-gone-beyond apprehension, in the threefold purity [of the three spheres], // in the aim, in the six supernormal cognitions, and in the way of the knowledge of all aspects — the engagement-practice, mounting up to the Mahāyāna, is to be known.
being a noble Mahāyāna realisation that is taken up by the wisdom directly realising the essencelessness of the three paths — that is the definition of the knowledge of the paths.
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
The 'Great Vehicle' of Buddhism, repeatedly invoked as both a doctrinal authority and the superior path capable of yielding buddhahood in a single lifetime.
Through the resolute conviction of great wisdom, great means, and great compassion, [this is] the domain of the great being (mahāsattva), proclaimed in the Mahāyāna.
Such is the greatness of the Mahāyāna, furnished with merit and gnosis:
In the Mahāyāna, reflection on scriptural learning [as the decisive criterion] is not adopted;
Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana
The Mahāyāna tradition/vows followed by Pūrṇavijaya in his ascetic practice.
Already his way of holding to the great vows of the Mahāyāna showed the signs of perfection.
Pūrṇavijaya has performed his vows and austerities there on the divine, excellent Mount Meru, together with his beloved, firm in the Mahāyāna.