The Mahayana Movement

The Mahayana is a movement that arose when something has gone missing from what's there. So we have to imagine that after the Buddha's parinavana, as we sometimes say, or when he passed away, his teachings were passed on orally for many, many generations. And also we must imagine the inspiration of the Buddha was so present to people. They'd met him, they'd felt the impact of his life and his being on them. Many were enlightened themselves, like the Buddha. All this was being passed on, not just as it were the teachings. Magnificent Master Gotama.