Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban]

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Lin Zhemin wrote:

> There are two branches of
> Buddhism: the Dasheng (Big? I don't know its English counterpart)

"Mahayana" (borrowing the Skt word).

> and Xiaosheng (Small).

The term "Hinayana" used to be used, but "small" = "weak" = "bad"
in English metaphors, so now the term "Theravadin" is normally
used.

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