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Arhat

//ˈɑːhæt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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)"

  2. 2
    one who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment wordnet
  3. 3
    One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed. Jainism

Etymology

Transliteration of Sanskrit अर्हत् (arhat, “worthy of worship”), used as a title for sanctified Buddhists. Doublet of arahant and arihant.

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