-
community is made up of four sections: monks, nuns,
śrāvakas (laymen) and śrāvikās (laywomen). The term
śrāvaka has also been used as a
shorthand for the community...
- a
fourfold order of muni (male monastics),
aryika (female monastics),
śrāvakas (male followers) and śrāvikās (female followers). In Jainism,
there are...
- the
Śrāvaka Vehicle (Skt. śrāvakayanika).
These people are
described as
having weak faculties,
following the
Śrāvaka Dharma,
utilizing the
Śrāvaka Piṭaka...
- path of a bodhisattva, and to not fall back to the
level of
arhats and
śrāvakas. The arhats, or at
least the
senior arhats, came to be
widely regarded...
- the
Adishthayika (transl. protecting deity) of the gaccha. The
founder Śrāvakas of the
gaccha installed the idol of
Mahakali on the hill to mark their...
-
Tulku Western tulku Kappiya Donchee Householder Upāsaka and Upāsikā
Achar Śrāvaka Ten prin****l
disciples Shaolin Monastery Major figures The
Buddha Nagasena...
-
Tulku Western tulku Kappiya Donchee Householder Upāsaka and Upāsikā
Achar Śrāvaka Ten prin****l
disciples Shaolin Monastery Major figures The
Buddha Nagasena...
- canonical. Both sub-traditions have
mendicants supported by
laypersons (
śrāvakas and śrāvikas). The Śvētāmbara
tradition in turn has two sub-traditions:...
- they are
characterized as
utilizing the same
canon of
texts as the
śrāvakas, the
Śrāvaka Piṭaka, but
having a
different set of teachings, the "Pratyekabuddha...
- Theravāda
Buddhist Theory and Practice: A
Reevaluation of the Bodhisattva-
Śrāvaka Opposition".
Philosophy East and West. 47 (3).
University of Hawai'i Press:...
