84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཐར་པར་ཞུགས་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཐར་པར་ཞུགས་པ།

  • thar par zhugs pa
  • pravrajita
  • Term
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  • those who have entered the path of liberation
  • ཐར་པར་ཞུགས་པ།
  • thar par zhugs pa
  • pravrajita
Definition in this text:

Perhaps a gloss or paraphrase for noble persons or noble ones, i.e., those who, through having reached the path of seeing, belong to one of four types: stream enterer (Skt. srota-āpanna), once-returner (Skt. sakṛdāgāmin), non-returner (Skt. anāgāmin), or worthy one (Skt. arhat). These stages are characterized by the gradual elimination of the fetters (Skt./Pāli saṃyojana) that bind one to saṃsāra and to being an ordinary person (Skt. pṛthagjana; Pāli puthujjana).