84000 Glossary of Terms
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སྐྱེས་བུ་ཟུང་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms
སྐྱེས་བུ་ཟུང་བཞི།
skyes bu zung bzhi
catuḥpuruṣayuga
- Term
Publications: 2
Translation by James Gentry
- Four pairs
- གང་ཟག་ཟུང་བཞི།
- gang zag zung bzhi
- catvāri yugāni
The fourfold division of “noble” (i.e., realized) beings: stream enterer (srotaāpanna), once-returner (sakṛdāgāmin), non-returner (anāgāmin), and worthy one (arhat). They are “pairs” because in each of the four categories one first enters the path of that stage, and subsequently attains its fruit.
Translation by Mattia Salvini
- Four pairs of persons
- སྐྱེས་བུ་ཟུང་བཞི།
- skyes bu zung bzhi
- catuḥpuruṣayuga
This refers stream enterers, once-returners, non-returners, and arhats, along with those practicing to attain the realizations of those states.