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The Sangha of the Tathagata's disciples (Ariya Sangha) can be described as including four or eight kinds of individuals. There are four [groups of noble disciples] when path and fruit are taken as pairs, and eight groups of individuals, when each path and fruit are taken separately: (1) the path to stream-entry; (2) the fruition of stream-entry;
To see a fully awakened person, a Buddha, is so rare that it is like seeing an udumbara flower. In the Tu Hieu Monastery in Hue, there is a scroll which says: "The udumbara flower, although fallen from the stem, is still fragrant." Just as the fragrance of the udumbara flower cannot be destroyed, our capacity for enlightenment is always present.
Buddhas unique to Mahāyāna include the Buddhas Amitābha ("Infinite Light"), Akṣobhya ("the Imperturbable"), Bhaiṣajyaguru ("Medicine guru") and Vairocana ("the Illuminator"). In Mahāyāna, a Buddha is seen as a being that has achieved the highest kind of awakening due to his superior compassion and wish to help all beings.
In Buddhism, Buddha (/ ˈ b uː d ə, ˈ b ʊ d ə /, which in classic Indic languages means "awakened one") [1] is a title for those who are spiritually awake or enlightened, and have thus attained the supreme goal of Buddhism, variously described as nirvana ("blowing out"), bodhi (awakening, enlightenment), and liberation (vimutti, vimoksa).
Lena rapidly rises to S Rank whilst Light unwillingly starts a farm growing Skill Fruits for the church. Ayla, an orphan who lives with Light, unknowingly uses the fruit in a stew. Light is astonished when he survives and gains a second skill, Sword God. This causes Saint to receive a divine revelation of the appearance of a great evil.
Aspiring for the supreme result or fruit (phala), i.e. Buddhahood; According to Ulrich Pagel, numerous Mahāyāna sūtras, like the Bodhisattvapiṭaka, see the arising of bodhicitta (bodhicittotpāda) as an ongoing process which must be constantly refurbished (rather than as a static event which only happens once). [12]
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Samyaksam Buddhāya (To the perfectly awakened one) Namo Sarwa Tathāgatebhyaḥ (Homage to all Tathāgatas [k]) Arahatabhyah (To the Arhats) Samyaksam Buddhebhyaḥ (To the fully and perfectly awakened ones ) Namo Arya Avalokiteśvarāya (Homage to Noble Avalokiteśvara) Bodhisattvāya (To the Bodhisattva) Mahasattvāya (To the Great)