A questiion about the pratyekabuddhayāna

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A questiion about the pratyekabuddhayāna

In the Wiki it claims that… “In at least some of the early Buddhist schools some of the early Buddhist schools used the concept of three vehicles including Pratyekabuddhayāna. For example, the Vaibhāṣika Sarvāstivādins are known to have employed the outlook of Buddhist practice as consisting of the Three Vehicles:
Śrāvakayāna
Pratyekabuddhayāna
Bodhisattvayāna” and that
“… the Dharmaguptakas regarded the path of a pratyekabuddha (pratyekabuddhayāna) and the path of a bodhisattva (bodhisattvayāna) to be separate.” - "One of their tenets reads, “The Buddha and those of the Two Vehicles, although they have one and the same liberation, have followed different noble paths.”…

…does this mean the traditional Bodhisattva definition of “one who has recieved a Prediction from a Buddha?” / NOT an oath born Bodhisattva like in China?

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I don’t know from what you came to that conclusion?

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Probably. Receiving the prediction and then making the resolve for bodhicitta is the bodhisattva career in texts like the Mahavastu and Abhiniskramana. The Mahavadana Sutra in DN/DA and the Mahavastu are the most accessible early Buddhist sources for the bodhisattva path in early Buddhism, along with the Jataka collections organized along the lines of paramitas. But what has this to do with pratyekabuddhas … ?

The three vehicles are also found in Asanga’s Yogacarabhumi, which is one of those early Mahayana bridges that began the transition from early Buddhism. Much of it is standard Abhidharma thought with some modifications and a large treatise on bodhisattva practice added to it.

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