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**ElenaEvgeevna** · 03-13-2010, 09:24 PM

Returning to the subject of Theravada stream entry - does anyone have anything else to say about it ? Stream Entry: Part 1 & Part 2
Sotapanna
The Story of Kukkutamitta
Vera Sutta
DAKKHINAVIBHANGA SUTTA
Ananda, there are offerings made to fourteen kinds of individual beings. What are the fourteen?...
An offering made to one who is a Sotapanna is the ninth kind of offering made to an individual.
An offering made to one who is practising to attain Sotapatti Fruition (i.e. one who has attained Sotapatti Magga) is the tenth kind of offering made to an individual. Addendum: (A Forum discussion on an interesting case of a Sotapanna)
50th Anniversary of Nanavira's Sotapatti

Is there an equivalent in Mahayana? The late Ven Master Hsuan Hua of City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, CA in his lecture on the 'Diamond Cutter Perfection of Wisdom Sutra':
Link: http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/BTTStexts/ps.vajra.02.020503.scr een.pdf (Pages 77-79)

http://cttbusa.org/42s/42sections.asp
Section 11: The Increase in Merit Gained by Bestowing Food
The Buddha said...
Giving food to ten thousand people who hold the Five Precepts is not as good as giving food to a single Srotaapanna.
Giving food to a million Srotaapannas is not as good as giving food to a single Sakridagamin. (Note: Compare this with Velama Sutta )

http://www.sutrasmantras.info/glossary.html#rank
voice-hearer fruits...
A. The holy fruits achieved by voice-hearers on the Liberation Way are
(1) Srotāpanna, the Stream-Enterer who will attain Arhatship after at most seven times being reborn as a god and then a human;
B. These four holy fruits and the corresponding nearness to them are called the eight holy ranks (八聖).
Actually, one who is in the first rank, nearing the first holy fruit, is only a sage, and those in the higher seven ranks are holy beings.
Those who are still learning (śaikṣa, 有學) are in the first seven ranks. Only Arhats, in the eight rank, are those who have nothing more to learn (aśaikṣa, 無學). http://www.drba.org/dharma/btts/9xxe...tail.asp?wid=9
Four Stages of Arhatship
Strictly speaking the term Arhat refers to the fourth stage only, but is often used to refer to those of all four stages. (The term can also include Pratyekabuddhas and is also employed in its more general meaning as one of the Ten Titles of the Buddha.)

1) First Stage
"The Arhat of the first stage is called one who has 'entered the stream' (srota-apanna). He has entered the stream of the Dharma-nature of the sage, and he goes counter to the flow of the stream of the six senses of common people. He still has to undergo seven more rebirths among those in the heavens and among humans before he comes to the end of the Path." (DFS X 52)

The srota-apanna . . . has seven deaths and seven births remaining, and then will be certified as an Arhat. Severing love and desire is like severing the four limbs; one never uses them again. (S42 1)

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ElenaEvgeevna Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 575 Senior Member	Returning to the subject of Theravada stream entry - does anyone have anything else to say about it ? Stream Entry: Part 1 & Part 2 Sotapanna The Story of Kukkutamitta Vera Sutta DAKKHINAVIBHANGA SUTTA Ananda, there are offerings made to fourteen kinds of individual beings. What are the fourteen?... An offering made to one who is a Sotapanna is the ninth kind of offering made to an individual. An offering made to one who is practising to attain Sotapatti Fruition (i.e. one who has attained Sotapatti Magga) is the tenth kind of offering made to an individual. Addendum: (A Forum discussion on an interesting case of a Sotapanna) 50th Anniversary of Nanavira's Sotapatti Is there an equivalent in Mahayana? The late Ven Master Hsuan Hua of City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, CA in his lecture on the 'Diamond Cutter Perfection of Wisdom Sutra': Link: http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/BTTStexts/ps.vajra.02.020503.scr een.pdf (Pages 77-79) http://cttbusa.org/42s/42sections.asp Section 11: The Increase in Merit Gained by Bestowing Food The Buddha said... Giving food to ten thousand people who hold the Five Precepts is not as good as giving food to a single Srotaapanna. Giving food to a million Srotaapannas is not as good as giving food to a single Sakridagamin. (Note: Compare this with Velama Sutta ) http://www.sutrasmantras.info/glossary.html#rank voice-hearer fruits... A. The holy fruits achieved by voice-hearers on the Liberation Way are (1) Srotāpanna, the Stream-Enterer who will attain Arhatship after at most seven times being reborn as a god and then a human; B. These four holy fruits and the corresponding nearness to them are called the eight holy ranks (八聖). Actually, one who is in the first rank, nearing the first holy fruit, is only a sage, and those in the higher seven ranks are holy beings. Those who are still learning (śaikṣa, 有學) are in the first seven ranks. Only Arhats, in the eight rank, are those who have nothing more to learn (aśaikṣa, 無學). http://www.drba.org/dharma/btts/9xxe...tail.asp?wid=9 Four Stages of Arhatship Strictly speaking the term Arhat refers to the fourth stage only, but is often used to refer to those of all four stages. (The term can also include Pratyekabuddhas and is also employed in its more general meaning as one of the Ten Titles of the Buddha.) 1) First Stage "The Arhat of the first stage is called one who has 'entered the stream' (srota-apanna). He has entered the stream of the Dharma-nature of the sage, and he goes counter to the flow of the stream of the six senses of common people. He still has to undergo seven more rebirths among those in the heavens and among humans before he comes to the end of the Path." (DFS X 52) The srota-apanna . . . has seven deaths and seven births remaining, and then will be certified as an Arhat. Severing love and desire is like severing the four limbs; one never uses them again. (S42 1)
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