While both Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism go back and forth on this, some have said that the Pali Canon suttas and Mahāyāna sutras were written within a hundred years of each other or that Mahāyāna was actually written at the time of the Buddha. Unfortunately, this is something that will...
3.The Vinaya of the Theravada, contained in the Pali Canon. The first and second of these are the cornerstones of the two major distinct schools of Mahayana Buddhism—Chinese (East Asian) and Tibetan, and their numerous sub-schools and later branches. The third is the cornerstone ofTheravada ...
frequently found in modern studies between Mahayana andHinayana(“Lesser Vehicle”), a term used in some Mahayana texts to criticize unacceptable anddeviantopinions; it has no real-world referent and is never equivalent to non-Mahayana Buddhism, much less to any specific sect such as theTheravada...