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- noun Plural form of
arhat .
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They become: shravaka arhats, pratyekabuddha arhats, or
The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation 2006
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They become: shravaka arhats, pratyekabuddha arhats, or
The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Basic Presentation 2006
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Shravaka arhats also attain liberation without attaining enlightenment.
Dormant Grasping for True Existence According to Gelug Madhyamaka 2006
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“Tenet shravaka arhats” are those who have gained nonconceptual cognition of only the lack of a self-sufficiently knowable “soul” of persons (gang-zag-gi rang-rkya thub-‘dzin-pa’i rdzas-yod-ki bdag-med) as asserted by one of the lower Buddhist tenet systems, but who lack nonconceptual cognition of the voidness of truly established existence as defined in Gelug Prasangika.
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Progressively developing the five pathway minds as Hinayana practitioners, we become either resultant abider shravaka arhats or resultant abider pratyekabuddha arhats, rid of the emotional obscurations.
The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Basic Presentation 2006
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Shravaka arhats have rid themselves of only the emotional obscurations.
The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation 2006
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Nevertheless, the good qualities of shravaka arhats are extremely extensive.
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Even before they achieve eighth -, ninth - and tenth-level bhumi minds, arya bodhisattvas, when achieving a seventh-level bhumi mind, already outshine shravaka arhats and pratyekabuddha arhats.
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At Asiantiques, for example, I spent some time with a large yellow stone from Qing dynasty China carved with an intricate landscape full of Buddhist sages called arhats clambering about.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2010
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In the case of tenet shravaka arhats (grub-mtha’ nyan-thos dgra-bcom-pa), the tendencies of automatically arising attachment give rise to subtle automatically arising attachment (‘dod-chags phra-mo).
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