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One of Buddha's disciples has to be asked to ordain a nun in traditional times o Nun orders have 311 fallowed called Pratimoksha o Nuns (like monks) contain the arhat status o All traditional nun orders have been stopped o The only completely ordained nuns can be found in Asian Mahayana tradition o— Recently Uploaded Slideshows
238 Footnote 293: Compare the fusion of Śivaism and Buddhism in Java Footnote 294: Or Vajrâcârya-arhat-bhikshu-buddha, which in itself shows what a medley Nepalese Buddhism has become Footnote 295: See above chap.— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
Hearn's Japan, p. 34, and passim Footnote 32: Sanskrit arhat or arhan_, meaning worthy or deserving, i.e., holy man, the highest rank of Buddhist saintship.— The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
And this is the first вrya satya (noble truth The cessation of sorrow can only happen with "the utter cessation of and disenchantment about that very craving, giving it up, renouncing it and emancipation from it [Footnote ref 5 When the desire or craving (_ta@nhв_) has once ceased the sage becomes an arhat, and the deeds that he may do after that will bear no fruit.— A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1
An arhat may suffer the effects of the deeds done by him in some previous birth just as Moggallвna did, but in spite of the remnants of his past karma an arhat was an emancipated man on account of the cessation of his desire [Footnote ref 1 Kammas are said to be of three kinds, of body, speech and mind (_kвyika_, vвcika and mвnasika_).— A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

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