[SawbasyWrab]

Could anyone who's a Theravadin tell me if people who have achieved stream entry are openly recognised within a community or not , please? In my past years with the Theravadin Community, it is a somewhat unspoken precedent that any form of attainment is usually discussed privately with one's teacher and not openly declared or recognised.
As far as I recall, the Monastics are discouraged & forbidden by the Vinaya to do such but not so for the Laity. See: Gihi Sutta
There is however one such self proclaimed case and recognised by his own followers but not in the wider Theravadin Community:
http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/jhanananda.html