Śrāvaka

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Key Term	śrāvaka
Hover Popup Choices	śrāvaka; disciple; nyan thos
In Tibetan Script	ཉན་ཐོས།
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	nyan thos
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	श्रावक
Romanized Sanskrit	śrāvaka
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	nyentö
Sanskrit Phonetic Rendering	śrāvaka
Chinese Script	聲聞
Chinese Pinyin	shēng wén
Japanese Script	声聞
Japanese Transliteration	shōmon
English Standard	Hearer; Disciple
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	Hearer
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to reach arhathood, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.
Has the Sense of	Because they mainly rely on the words of the Buddha in their spiritual practice, they are known as Hearers or Listeners. The śrāvaka vehicle is the one of the three vehicles or yānas in Buddhism beside the vehicles of Solitary Realizers and Bodhisattvas
Definitions
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term	proclaimer shravaka/ hearer of the teachings shravaka. 'Hearer' or 'listener.' Hinayana practitioner of the First Turning of the Wheel of the Dharma on the four noble truths who realizes the suffering inherent in samsara, and focuses on understanding that there is no independent self. By conquering disturbing emotions, he liberates himself, attaining first the stage of Stream Enterer at the Path of Seeing, followed by the stage of Once-Returner who will be reborn only one more time, and the stage of Non-returner who will no longer be reborn into samsara. The final goal is to become an Arhat. These four stages are also known as the 'four results of spiritual practice.' shravaka, hearer, pious attendants. disciples, hearer of the teachings listener, disciple [of the Buddha]; hearer of the teachings. Expl.: sgra don ni/ gzhan brten thos sgrog nyan thos/ /zhes pa ste/ de'ang legs sbyar skad du/ shra ba ka zhes pa nyan pa dang thos pa gnyis ka la 'jug pas nyan thos zhes bya ba yin te/ bu ddha sangs pa dang rgyas pa gnyis ka la 'jug pas sangs rgyas zhes brjod pa ltar ro/ /rnam pa gcig tu na/ gzhan brten thos sgrog ces pas/ slob dpon gzhan la brten zhing de las thos pa dang yul gzhan la sgrog pas thos sgrog gam nyan thos zhes bya'o Shravaka, "listener," a Hinayana follower of the Buddha
Tshig mdzod Chen mo	ཐེག་པ་གསུམ་གྱི་ནང་ཚན་ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་ལ་ཞུགས་པའི་གང་ཟག་སྟེ། ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་སྡེ་སྣོད་རང་གིས་གཙོ་བོར་ཉམས་སུ་མི་ལེན་པ་དང་། སངས་རྒྱས་སོགས་ལས་ཉན་ཞིང་ཐོས་པར་བྱེད་པས་ན་ཉན་ཐོས་དང་། ཐོས་ནས་གཞན་ལ་སྒྲོག་པར་བྱེད་པས་ན་ཐོས་སྒྲོག་ཀྱང་ཟེར། མིང་གི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ལ་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་དབང་པོ་དང་། ཐུབ་དབང་གསུང་སྐྱེས། ཐེག་ཆུང་སྐྱེས་བུ། ཐོས་སྒྲོག་པ། སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་ལ་གནས་པ་བཅས་སོ།
RigpaWiki	rigpa:Shravaka

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

Literally "unknowing," it refers to a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the nature of reality. As such, it is considered to be the root cause of suffering and the basis for the arising of all other negative mental factors.

Commonly seen in a Mahāyāna context, the three vehicles are the Śrāvakayāna, Pratyekabuddhayāna, and Bodhisattvayāna, which reference the three different types of Buddhist practitioners. However, these three vehicles can also reference the three types of Buddhist teachings of the Hīnayāna, Mahāyāna (or Pāramitāyāna), and the Vajrayāna.

Often referred to as poisons, these are a class of disturbing or disruptive emotional states that when aroused negatively affect or taint the mind.