arhat

  1. Noun.  (Buddhism) one who has attained enlightenment; a Buddhist saint.
  2. Noun.  (''Jainism'') one of the stages of the ascetic's spiritual evolution, when all passions (anger, ego, deception, greed, attachment, hatred and ignorance) are destroyed; arhanta.

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