arhat

arhat englanniksi

1. Arhant, Arhat, lohan

1. One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.

2. 1954: Over and against the ''arhat'', retreating from appearances into an entirely transcendental Nirvana, stands the Bodhisattva, for whom Suchness and the world of contingencies are one — Aldous Huxley, ''The Doors of Perception'' (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 32)

3. One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.

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