小乘：早期佛教的主要流派。大乘教徒认为它教义烦琐，不能超度很多人，因此贬称它为小乘

Little Vehicle; Little Path; Hinayana; Theravada; early school of Buddhism whose doctrines are looked down upon by Mahayana (Big Vehicle) as loaded with too many trivial details to expiate the sins of all the dead.