[Buddha-l] Lamas and such

[Chris Fynn]

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."

Tibetan has both theg pa dman pa / theg man "lower vehicle"  and theg pa 
chung (ngu) "small vehicle"/ "junior vehicle".  "dman" also occurs in 
the common Tibetan word for woman - "skye dman" (low birth).

- C

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