Mahayana
 

This is the second of the two great councils of Buddhist orders, occurring about a 100 years of Buddha's death when the Mahasanghikas (the Great Order) broke away from the traditional order on account of matters of discipline as well as doctrine. Discarding the old order as `the lesser vehicle'(Hinayana), they called their order `the bigger vehicle'(Mahayana).They offered salvation to all and its scriptures claimed to represent the final doctrines of the Buddha which had been revealed only to his spiritually advanced followers.