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noun

IPA: /ˈɑːhæt/

Say it like: Arh-at

The correct spelling is arhat. One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint. For example: "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)"

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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)

Definition

noun

  1. 1.One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
  2. 2.One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.

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