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It is important to never forget Hinayana practice. It should be included in advanced practices.

More about the term 'Hinayana'


The word Hīnayāna is formed of hīna (हीन): "poor", "inferior","abandoned", "deficient", "defective;" and yāna (यान): "vehicle", where "vehicle" means "a way of going to enlightenment". The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary (1921–25) defines hīna in even stronger terms, with a semantic field that includes "poor, miserable; vile, base, abject, contemptible," and "despicable."

In the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese languages, the term was translated by Kumārajīva and others as "small vehicle" (小 meaning "small", 乘 meaning "vehicle"), although earlier and more accurate translations of the term also exist. In Mongolian (Baga Holgon) term for Hinayana also means "small" or "lesser" vehicle,while in Tibetan there are at least two words to designate the term, theg chung (Tibetan: ཐེག་ཆུང་) meaning "small vehicle", and theg dman (Tibetan: ཐེག་དམན་) meaning "inferior vehicle" or "inferior spiritual approach".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinayana#Etymology
Hi Tony

There are a range of meanings with an extremely negative connotation and so the use of that word isn't an appropriate one to describe practices and teachings in a mixed tradition group such as this one.

I am a former Vajrayana practitioner myself and am very much aware of what it implies, so lets not use it, please, or even perhaps assume that one tradition has more advanced practices than another just because it says so.

Thanks