śrāvaka
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śrāvaka
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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