arhat
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Sanskrit अर्हत् (árhat, “enlightened one, holy one”), originally "worthy of worship".
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: /ˈɑːhæt/
Noun[edit]
arhat (plural arhats)
- (Buddhism) one who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint
- 1954: Over and against the arhat, retreating from appearances into an entirely transcendental Nirvana, stands the Bodhisattva, for whom Suchness and the world of contingencies are one — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 32)
- (Jainism) one of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta
Translations[edit]
a Buddhist saint
