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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
A person who has attained full awakening, overcoming ignorance and craving and becoming free from future rebirth; an important ideal in Theravada Buddhism. Also called an arhat.
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Revise: The Four Noble TruthsAn arahant, also called an arhat, is someone who has attained full awakening by overcoming ignorance and craving. This is an important Theravada ideal: the practitioner realises the Buddha's teaching and becomes free from future rebirth.
Distinguish an arahant's experience of nirvana during life from final release at death: enlightenment does not mean immediate physical death.
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