sakadagamin

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In Buddhism, a sakadagamin is an individual who has reached the second of four stages of spiritual attainment on the path to becoming an arhat (a perfected person who has achieved nirvana). The term sakadagamin means "once-returner," indicating that this individual will be reborn only one more time in this realm before achieving enlightenment. This stage is attained by diminishing lust, hatred, and illusion. The four stages leading to arhatship in Theravada Buddhism are stream-enterer, once-returner (sakadagamin), non-returner, and arhat.12

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arhat
…(sangha), (2) the “once-returner” (sakadagamin), who will be reborn only once in this realm, a state attained by diminishing lust, hatred, and illusion, (3) the “nonreturner” (anagamin), who, after death, will be reborn in a higher heaven, where he will become an arhat, a state attained by overcoming sensuous…
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…(sangha), (2) the “once-returner” (sakadagamin), who will be reborn only once in this realm, a state attained by diminishing lust, hatred, and illusion, (3) the “nonreturner” (anagamin), who, after death, will be reborn in a higher heaven, where he will become an arhat, a state attained by overcoming sensuous…
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ariya-puggala
…holy person is termed a sakadagamin (“once-returner”), or one who is destined to be reborn in the human world only once more before reaching nibbana. A third type of ariya-puggala is the anagamin (“never-returner”), or one who will not be reborn in the human realm and will enter the realm…
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…holy person is termed a sakadagamin (“once-returner”), or one who is destined to be reborn in the human world only once more before reaching nibbana. A third type of ariya-puggala is the anagamin (“never-returner”), or one who will not be reborn in the human realm and will enter the realm…
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