Question

Discussing hinayana monks and mahayana monks beliefs regarding Buddha's existence that whether he was a deity or a man

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The biggest fundamental difference between Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism is the workship of gods and goddesses. Mahayana workships the bodhisattvas , while Hinayana Buddhist think that Buddha was the human instead of God because Hinayana think that Buddha was simply a man who found a way to Nirvana.