Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who has attained enlightenment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The highest rank of Buddhist saintship; specifically, one of the original five hundred disciples of Gautama Buddha. Also Arahat, Rahat, and Arhan, Rahan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Buddhism one who has attained enlightenment; a
Buddhist saint - noun Jainism one of the stages of the
ascetic 'sspiritual evolution , when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Buddhist who has attained nirvana
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Tibetans translate the Sanskrit term arhat, a liberated being, as foe-destroyer, someone who has destroyed the inner foes.
Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam: The Myth of Shambhala (Full Version) 2006
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The Tibetans translate the Sanskrit term arhat, a liberated being, as foe-destroyer, someone who has destroyed the inner foes.
Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam: The Myth of Shambhala (Abridged Version) 2006
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The Tibetans translate the Sanskrit term arhat, a liberated being, as foe-destroyer, someone who has destroyed the inner foes.
Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam: The Myth of Shambhala (Abridged Version) 2006
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The Tibetans translate the Sanskrit term arhat, a liberated being, as foe-destroyer, someone who has destroyed the inner foes.
Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam: The Myth of Shambhala (Full Version) 2006
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There are three purified states (byang-chub, Skt. bodhi) – those of a shravaka arhat, a pratyekabuddha arhat, and a bodhisattva arhat or Buddha.
The Eight Branches of an Arya Pathway Mind (The Eightfold Noble Path) 2007
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The purified states are those of an arhat (liberated being) – either a shravaka arhat or pratyekabuddha arhat – or that of an enlightened being (bodhisattva arhat, Buddha).
Buddha-Nature According to Gelug-Chittamatra, Svatantrika, and Prasangika Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche II 2006
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Progressing through the five pathway minds as Hinayana practitioners, we become either a resultant abider shravaka arhat or a resultant abider pratyekabuddha arhat, rid of the emotional obscurations.
The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation 2006
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There are three purified states (byang-chub, Skt. bodhi) – that of a shravaka arhat, a pratyekabuddha arhat, and a bodhisattva arhat or Buddha.
The Four Close Placements of Mindfulness According to Mahayana 2002
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There are three purified states (byang-chub, Skt. bodhi) – that of a shravaka arhat, a pratyekabuddha arhat, and a bodhisattva arhat or Buddha.
The Four Close Placements of Mindfulness According to Mahayana 2002
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This mid-14th century wood sculpture depicts an "arhat," a spiritual practitioner who has attained a high degree of enlightenment.
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