(Sanskrit: Mahāyāna, the ‘great vehicle’.) The name used for the type of Buddhism that is today predominant in China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Tibet, Bhutan, and Mongolia. Emerging around 2000 years ago in India in different Buddhist orders, It is associated with the bodhisattva path as a universal objective, the perfection of wisdom literature, and the popular worship of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.