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Hinayana has also been inappropriately used as a synonym for Theravada, which is the main tradition of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. In Sanskrit , "Hīnayāna" ( / ˌ h iː n ə ˈ j ɑː n ə / , हीनयान ) is a term literally meaning the "small/deficient vehicle" or "small path."
Śrāvakayāna is the path that meets the goals of an Arhat—an individual who achieves liberation as a result of listening to the teachings (or following a lineage) of a Samyaksaṃbuddha. A Buddha who achieved enlightenment through Śrāvakayāna is called a Śrāvakabuddha , as distinguished from a Samyaksaṃbuddha or pratyekabuddha .
The term arhat is often rendered in English as arahat. The term arhat was transliterated into some East Asian languages phonetically, for example, the Chinese āluóhàn (Ch. 阿羅漢), often shortened to simply luóhàn (Ch. 羅漢). This may appear in English as luohan or lohan. In Japanese the pronunciation of the same Chinese characters is ...
Thus, another major difference between the bodhisattva and the arhat is that the bodhisattva practices the path for the good of others (par-ārtha), due to their bodhicitta, while the sravakas do so for their own good (sv-ārtha) and thus, do not have bodhicitta (which is compassionately focused on others). [52]
The fourth stage is that of Arahant (Sanskrit: Arhat), a fully awakened person. They have abandoned all ten fetters and, upon death (Sanskrit: Parinirvāṇa, Pāli: Parinibbāna) will never be reborn in any plane or world, having wholly escaped saṃsāra. [2]
The bodhisattva path is not denied in Theravāda, it is generally seen as a long and difficult path suitable for only a few. [480] Thus the Bodhisattva path is normative in Mahāyāna, while it is an optional path for a heroic few in Theravāda. [481] Mahāyāna sees the arhat's nirvana as being imperfect and inferior or preliminary to full ...
Hinayana, lit. "small vehicle", A coinage by the Mahayana for the Buddhist doctrines concerned with the achievement of Nirvana as a Śrāvakabuddha or a Pratyekabuddha, as opposed to a Samyaksambuddha. While sometime thought as derogatory, it means in fact that the Hinayana doctrine is made to save but 1 individual, the one who follows its ...
A Shrotaapanna is a first stage Arhat. Certification to the first fruit of Arhatship, which is within the Small Vehicle, comes when the eighty-eight categories of view delusions are smashed. [31] Hsuan Hua continues: The first fruit is that of Śrotāpanna, a Sanskrit word which means "One Who Has Entered the Flow."