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Buddha taught was
aimed towards a
class of
human being he
referred to as
puthujjana.
These were
essentially ordinary people engaged in
worldly pursuits. In...
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knows everything in a
single thought-instant." An
ordinary person or
puthujjana (Pali; Sanskrit: pṛthagjana; i.e. pritha: without, and jnana: knowledge)...
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enlightenment (Pāli: sotāpatti maggattha). In this sense, "ordinary people" (
puthujjana) can be
contrasted with this
narrow definition of "noble disciple" (ariyasāvaka)...
- type of
person understanding mundane right view (lokiya) "worldling" (
puthujjana)
Buddhists & non-Buddhists
believes in one's own
kamma Buddhists only...
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classifies human beings into two
broad categories. On one side
there are the
puthujjanas, the worldlings,
those belonging to the multitude,
whose eyes are still...
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twelve major classes of persons, four of the
worldly ordinary class (
puthujjana) and
eight of the
spiritual elect (ariya, the
noble ones). The Puggala-paññatti...
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whether suicide can be justified. “Channa was an
unenlightened person (
puthujjana) who,
afflicted by the pain and
distress of a
serious illness, took his...
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thought process of four
kinds of
persons -
untaught ordinary persons (
puthujjana),
disciples of the
higher training (a sekha, who has at
least achieved...
