śrāvaka

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Glossaryśrāvaka

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Sanskrit Noun

śrāvaka

Hearer, Disciple
श्रावक
ཉན་ཐོས།
聲聞

Basic Meaning

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

Term Variations
Key Term śrāvaka
Topic Variation śrāvaka
Tibetan ཉན་ཐོས།  ( nyentö)
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration nyan thos  ( nyentö)
Devanagari Sanskrit श्रावक  ( śrāvaka)
Romanized Sanskrit śrāvaka  ( śrāvaka)
Chinese 聲聞
Chinese Pinyin shēng wén
Japanese 声聞
Japanese Transliteration shōmon
Buddha-nature Site Standard English Hearer, Disciple
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term Hearer
Term Information
Source Language Sanskrit
Basic Meaning The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.
Term Type Noun
Definitions
Tshig mdzod Chen mo ཐེག་པ་གསུམ་གྱི་ནང་ཚན་ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་ལ་ཞུགས་པའི་གང་ཟག་སྟེ། ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་སྡེ་སྣོད་རང་གིས་གཙོ་བོར་ཉམས་སུ་མི་ལེན་པ་དང་། སངས་རྒྱས་སོགས་ལས་ཉན་ཞིང་ཐོས་པར་བྱེད་པས་ན་ཉན་ཐོས་དང་། ཐོས་ནས་གཞན་ལ་སྒྲོག་པར་བྱེད་པས་ན་ཐོས་སྒྲོག་ཀྱང་ཟེར། མིང་གི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ལ་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་དབང་པོ་དང་། ཐུབ་དབང་གསུང་སྐྱེས། ཐེག་ཆུང་སྐྱེས་བུ། ཐོས་སྒྲོག་པ། སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་ལ་གནས་པ་བཅས་སོ།
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