Definitions for arhats

arhats Ar·hat

Spelling: [ahr-huh t]
IPA: /ˈɑr hət/

Arhats is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in arhats (aahrst).

Definitions for arhats

noun

  1. a Buddhist who has attained Nirvana through rigorous discipline and ascetic practices. Compare Bodhisattva.

Origin of arhats

1865-70; Sanskrit: meriting respect, derivative of arhati (he) merits

Examples for arhats

In many respects the virtues of the Bodhisattva are those of the Arhat.

"There is no god superior to the Arhat," says the Kalpa-sūtra (Stevenson, p. 10).

The aim of the religious life is to become a Bodhisattva, not to become an Arhat.

The life of an Arhat which includes the strictest morality is commended on its own account as the best and happiest existence.

He was the last disciple whom the Buddha converted, and he straightway became an Arhat.

But in the night hours spirits appear to us and tell us not to kill ourselves, for an Arhat will come from the East to deliver us.

With the death of an Arhat comes the state known as an-updi-sesa-nibbnam in which no skandhas remain.

Be it noted, however, that such canonization was never accorded to an Arhat till after his departure from the world.

Arhat, in short, was from the first a name for the higher grade of saint-like Bhikshu.

They answered in the affirmative, saying that he was an Arhat.

Word Value for arhats
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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