Arya

A practitioner who has had non-conceptual cognition of the sixteen aspects of the four noble truths – and, according to Gelug Prasangika, including their voidness and the voidness of the person experiencing or cognizing them – and thus has attained a shravaka, pratyekabuddha or bodhisattva seeing pathway of mind (path of seeing).

Tibetan: འཕགས་པ། 'phags-pa

Sanskrit: ārya

Pali: ariya

J. Hopkins: Superior

Synonyms: Highly realized being; Noble one


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Русский: Арья
Tiếng Việt: Thánh

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