arhat
/ˈɑː(ɹ)hæt/
Meaning
One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
One of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed.
One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
One who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
Examples
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)
Word Forms
arhats
Etymology
Transliteration of Sanskrit अर्हत् (arhat, “worthy of worship”), used as a title for sanctified Buddhists. Doublet of arahant and arihant.