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'''Stream Enterer''' ([[Wyl.]] ''rgyun zhugs''; Skt. ''Śrotāpanna'') is the first of the [[four results of the Hinayana path]]. The name is given after a simile that compares attaining [[enlightenment]] with crossing a stream and reaching the other shore.  
'''Stream Enterer''' (Tib. ''gyün shyukpa''; ''rgyun zhugs pa''; Skt. ''Śrotāpanna'') is the first of the [[four results of the Hinayana path]]. Stream Enterers have attained realization of the [[Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths|sixteen subdivisions]] (impermanence and so on) of the [[Four Noble Truths]], and they then continue on the path.


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Revision as of 18:59, 27 May 2007

Stream Enterer (Tib. gyün shyukpa; rgyun zhugs pa; Skt. Śrotāpanna) is the first of the four results of the Hinayana path. Stream Enterers have attained realization of the sixteen subdivisions (impermanence and so on) of the Four Noble Truths, and they then continue on the path.