It is futile to practice a mahayana teaching that lacks the path of compassion .
若修大乘教法,却乏慈悲道,也是徒劳。
Maitreya , who is sometimes represented seated on a throne western-style , and venerated both in mahayana and non-mahayana buddhism , is sometimes considered to have been influenced by the zoroastrian mithra , a god of contracts , associated with the sun .
George yeo , singapore 's foreign minister who is also on the mentor group , says nalanda matters to the whole region , not least because a translation of the lotus sutra , a religious text , by one of its monks is the basis for mahayana buddhism practised in east asia .