6 dated entries naming Mahâyâna, drawn from 6 separate years between 96 CE and 825 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
96A schism in Buddhism creates a new, popular religion in India, Mahâyâna ("Great Vehicle").source
2nd century
150Nagarjuna, founder of Mahayana "Great Vehicle" (d. c. 250)source
4th century
394Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist scholar-monk (d. 468)source
5th century
443Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist monk, is an invited honored guest by emperor Wen of Liu Song (Liu Song dynasty). He translates the Lankavatara Sutra from Sanskrit into the Chinese language.source
468Gunabhadra, Indian Buddhist scholar-monk (b. 394)source
9th century
825Borobudur, a Mahayana Buddhist Temple, is completed in Central Java (modern Indonesia).source