Explore/Mahāyāna & Non-Mahāyānist Traditions

This page will explore how Mahāyāna & Non-Mahāyānist Traditions differ with regard to their history, doctrines, and practices. The idea of this page is to present in a succinct way the features of the Mahayana tradition Śāntideva belonged to.

The titles listed in the bibliography below are useful sources to develop this page. Even if their main focus is on different subject, they have been selected because they include valuable information on the topic of this page.

TO DO:
- Add a timeline
- Add a chart of non-MHYN traditions

Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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