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
Definitions

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.