M [Bad, vile.]
M [Bad (hīna) ; vehicle (yāna).] "The vehicle of the bads", Sect of bad monks whom diverged from saṃgha by their loosening, laxity. (So, the monks of hīnayāna are against the ones of theravāda)
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Author: Monk Dhamma Sāmi
Date: 2001
Translator: Thierry Lambrou
Update: 2005, June the 20th