རྒྱུན་དུ་ཞུགས་པ། | Glossary of Terms

A person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa. The first of the four attainments on the path of the śrāvakas.

The first of four attainments on the śrāvaka path.

The first stage of superior development in becoming a noble being on the path to awakening. Such an individual has not yet eliminated the afflictions but has entered a stream of forceful merit where a limit of seven lifetimes in the higher realms precede a final birth in which liberation is achieved.

A person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa. The first of the four attainments of the śrāvaka path.

The first level of Noble Ones on the path of the hearers.

A person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa. The first of the four accomplishments of the path of the hearers.

One who has achieved the first level of attainment on the path of the hearers, and who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa.

The first of the four attainments of śrāvakas, this term refers to a person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa.

One who has entered the stream that leads to liberation. The first of the four fruitions.

A person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa. The first of the four attainments of the path of the hearers.

One who has achieved the first of the four levels of attainment on the śrāvaka path, and who is from then onward continuously approaching liberation.

A person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa. The first of the four attainments on the path of the hearers.

A person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa. The first of the four attainments of the path of the hearers.

The fourth of the four stages on the path to arhatship (Skt. āryapudgala) according to the Hīnayāna.

There are four kinds of noble persons (Skt. āryapudgala) according to the Śrāvakayāna path, characterized by a gradual abandonment of ten kinds of fetters (Skt. saṃyojana) that bind one to saṃsāra. This is the first of the four (or eight) stages of the realization of the supermundane path (and fruit) leading to awakening or liberation.

The first level of noble ones when practicing the path of the hearers.

The first of four levels of noble ones attainable on the path of the hearers. Beings on this level have entered the “stream” of practice that will inexorably lead to nirvāṇa.

A person who has attained the first of the four stages of spiritual achievement.

A person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa. The first of the four attainments of the path of the hearers.

A person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa. The first of the four attainments of the path of the hearers.

A person who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa. The first of the four attainments of the path of the hearers.

One who has achieved the first level of attainment on the path of the śrāvakas, and who has entered the “stream” of practice that leads to nirvāṇa.

The first of the four levels of attainment on the śrāvaka path. The one who attains it continuously approaches liberation from then onward.

One who has entered the “stream” to nirvāṇa; one of the fruits of the Śrāvakayāna.

The four stages of spiritual accomplishment are stream entrant, once-returner, non-returner, and arhat.

The first of four stages of spiritual accomplishment on the śrāvaka path: stream entrant, once-returner, non-returner, and arhat.

One of the four types of noble individuals, the first stage of the progression culminating in the state of arhat. The term is often rendered “stream-enterer.”

First of four stages in the path to nirvāṇa.

The first level of realization that transforms an ordinary person into a “noble one,” someone who has directly seen the nature of reality and has a sufficiently stable level of realization to be already bound toward liberation from saṃsāra.

A stage in practice that will inevitably result in nirvāṇa. The first of the four attainments of the path of the hearers.

One who has entered the stream that leads to liberation. The first of the four fruitions.

The state of one who has attained the . . . path of seeing (Rigzin 74), and will be carried to enlightenment as surely as a leaf floats downstream.

The first level of noble ones when practicing the path of the hearers.

The first level of the four kinds of noble person (āryapudgala, ’phags pa’i gang zag).