སྐྱེས་བུ་ཟུང་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms
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གང་ཟག་ཟུང་བཞི།
- སྐྱེས་བུ་ཟུང་བཞི།
- skyes bu zung bzhi
- gang zag zung bzhi
- catuḥpuruṣayuga
- catuḥ puruṣayuga
- catvāri yugāni
- Term
- four pairs of persons
- སྐྱེས་བུ་ཟུང་བཞི།
- skyes bu zung bzhi
- catuḥ puruṣayuga
- 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.
- 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.