MAHAYANA AND HINAYANA

• after the death of Buddha, Buddhism was divided into two sects namely Mahayana & Hinyana. Mahayana & Hinayana originated in prajnaparamita sutras. They have both the same goal but there ways of achievement of Nirvana was different .                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Hinayana :- Hinyana follows the original teaching of Buddha.It emphasizes individual salvation through self discipline and meditation. They followed teaching or philosophy not as a religion, no idiol workship were seen.There work was written in PALI language.Buddha is fol;owed like a normal human because Budha was simply a king who choosen to attain simple life and founded a way to NIRVANA .According to them they think GAUTAMA BUDDHA DONOT KNOW HOW TO MEDITATE IN HIS EARLY LIFE SO COULDN'T  have been a god .                                                                                                                              MAHAYANA :- THIS SECT OF Buddhism believe in the heavenliness of buddha and believes in idol wokship .It was spreaded from INDIA to several other nations such as china, korea ,japan,taiwan,nepal,tibet ,bhutan & mangolia. They were people believe in mantras,there main principles were based on the possibility of universal liberation from sufferings for all being . thats why ,this sect is called MAHAYANA ( the great vehicle).Based on the existence of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas embodying Buddha nature .In this sect they allow salvation through faith and commiting oneself to buddha.There early work was written in sanskrit language.They think Buddha came down to earth to help people cross the sea of life.                                           SIMILARITIES - The Four Nobel truth  and eightfold path (astangik marg)  are exactly the same in both sect.