On the other hand, the defining feature of Mahayana Buddhism is that it declared that ordinary people, those who had not renounced the everyday world and become monks, could become a Buddha in the future world as long as they continued ritagyo.
一方、出家者ではない俗世間の凡夫でもこの利他行を続けてさえいけば、誰でも未来の世において成仏できる（ブッダに成れる）と宣言したのが大乗仏教運動の特色である。