Diacritics

Sanskrit diacritics:

Ś ś Ā ā ṇ ṅ Ī ī ṁ ṃ ñ ṛ Ṣ ṣ Ū ū Ḍ ḍ Ṭ ṭ ḥ

ō ö Ö ü Śākyamuni

nirvāṇa

saṃsāra

śrāvaka

Mañjuśrī

Prāsaṅgika

maṇḍala

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.