Pratyekabuddha

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Key Term	Pratyekabuddha
Hover Popup Choices	solitary realizer; rang sangye; rangyal
In Tibetan Script	རང་སངས་རྒྱས།; རང་རྒྱལ།
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	rang sangs rgyas; rang rgyal
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	प्रत्येकबुद्ध
Romanized Sanskrit	pratyekabuddha
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	rang sangye; rangyal
Sanskrit Phonetic Rendering	pratyekabuddha
Chinese Script	緣覺
Chinese Pinyin	yuánjué chéng
Japanese Script	辟支仏
Japanese Transliteration	byakushibutsu
English Standard	solitary realizer
Richard Barron's English Term	solitary buddha
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	Solitary Realizer
Ives Waldo's English Term	self-centred buddhas; solitary realizer
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups.
Has the Sense of	Because the pratyekabuddhas work on their own to seek enlightenment for themselves, they are considered as self-centred, but because they are superior to the śrāvakas but inferior to the buddhas in their calibre, they are called middling buddhas.
Definitions

Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups.

Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups.

Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups.