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དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ཉིད། | Glossary of Terms
དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ཉིད།
dgra bcom pa nyid
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- Term
- Arhatship
- དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ཉིད།
- dgra bcom pa nyid
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See “arhat.”
- Arhatship
- དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ཉིད།
- dgra bcom pa nyid
- arhattva
“The state of liberation [from saṃsāra via destruction of the afflictive emotions] or the fifth path of no more to learn, attained by arhats after perfecting training in the fourth path . . .” (Rigzin 60). In this text being “established . . . in the unsurpassed, supreme welfare of nirvāṇa”; also appears as a synonym for the attainment of arhatship.
- Arhathood
- དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ཉིད།
- dgra bcom pa nyid
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The fourth of the four levels of attainment of the vehicle of the śrāvakas, it is the attainment of a nirvāṇa distinct from unexcelled perfect awakening, the type of nirvāṇa proper to buddhas.