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Theravada tradition was entirely created within the last 200 years by a Thai king that was strongly influenced by Protestant Christianity.

https://vividness.live/the-king-of-siam-invents-western-buddhism

For over a thousand years the "Theravada" tradition was referred by the Mahayana sect as "Shravaka" which means "hearer" because they had entirely lost both the ability to read the language of Pali and the ability to meditate. All they did was chant small portions of their holy texts in a language they couldn't understand, in the hopes that this would grant them salvation.

https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/how-early-buddhism-differs-from-theravada-a-checklist/23019

Mahayana Buddhism on the other hand is entirely apocryphal and largely Chinese in origin. The Maha Prajnaparamita Sutra for example was written in bad Sanskrit by a Chinaman many centuries after the Buddha died.

https://jayarava.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-heart-sutra-and-crisis-in-buddhist.html?m=1