The Hinayana approach stresses the ideal of the arhat, the enlightened one who has attained nirvana. |
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Striving all through the night, Samudra broke through the bonds of earthly attachments and became an arhat, a liberated being. |
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The arhat, having freed himself from the bonds of desire, will not be reborn. |
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Few people among us are obsessed with nirvana and awakening, but that existed in Buddha's sangha where many ascetics wanted to become arhat. |
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The state of an arhat is considered in the Theravada tradition to be the proper goal of a Buddhist. |
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The Theravada Buddhist at the highest level of holiness is the arhat, one who has reached final and absolute emancipation from all rebirths in any human or superhuman realm. |
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Mahayana Buddhists criticize the arhat ideal on the grounds that the bodhisattva is a higher goal of perfection, for the bodhisattva vows to become a buddha in order to work for the good of others. |
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Arhat stands here for any realised being including bodhisattvas. |
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