Definition of "arhats" [arhats]

• Plural form of arhat. (noun)

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• "Shravaka arhats also attain liberation without attaining enlightenment."
• "“Tenet shravaka arhats” are those who have gained nonconceptual cognition of only the lack of a self-sufficiently knowable “soul” of persons (gang-zag-gi rang-rkya thub-‘dzin-pa’i rdzas-yod-ki bdag-med) as asserted by one of the lower Buddhist tenet systems, but who lack nonconceptual cognition of the voidness of truly established existence as defined in Gelug Prasangika."
• "Shravaka arhats have rid themselves of only the emotional obscurations."