ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པ། | Glossary of Terms

A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

The term avaivartika should not be confused with anāgamin. While the first is a Mahāyāna term referring to someone “not turning back,” i.e., irreversibly established on the path to full awakening, the other is a term referring to one who will not return to this world again after death but will attain arhatship in one of the highest heavens.

A stage in the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back.

A stage in the gradual progression toward buddhahood, from which one will no longer regress to lower states.

A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

Name of the bhūmis from the path of seeing on, from which point there is no regression.

The term avaivartika should not be confused with anāgamin. While the first is a Mahāyāna term referring to someone “not turning back,” i.e., irreversibly established on the path to full awakening, the other is a Hīnayāna term referring to an arhat of the third level who will not return to this world again.

A stage in the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back.

The third stage on the path to arhatship; a non-returner who will no longer be reborn into saṃsāra.

See “irreversible.”

The stage on a bodhisattva’s path when there is no longer any chance of regressing to a preceding stage or state.