[Buddha-l] Lamas and such

[andy]

On Saturday 05 December 2009 16:45:48 Richard Hayes wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Weng-Fai Wong wrote:
> > And by the way, it is still standard terminology (in Chinese - in
> > China,
> > Taiwan and elsewhere) to refer to Theravada Buddhism as "xiao cheng"
> > (Hinayana).
>
> The Chinese term is no offensive. "Xiao" means small. It is not a
> translation of "hīna," which means "discarded, thrown away, abandoned,
> rubbish."
>
>
> Richard

I dunno, with Confucius it can be, when he draws the distinction of "xiao 
ren",  the little people, which always makes me think of Randy Newman, "Don't 
want no short vehicles around here!" 

-- 
James Andy Stroble, PhD
Lecturer in Philosophy
Department of Arts & Humanities
Leeward Community College
University of Hawaii

Adjunct Faculty 
Diplomatic and Military Studies
Hawaii Pacific University 

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