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Arahat

In Buddhism, a being who has realized nirvana and is free from rebirth. The Arahat is the ideal of the Theravāda. See also bodhisattva.



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One could argue that Mahayana Buddhism is an exception to the claim that the goal of all Indic traditions is moksha, or liberation from rebirth; for Mahayana Buddhism values the path of the Bodhisattva, who remains in samsara in order to show the way to nirvana to other beings, over what it regards as the inferior goal of the Arhat, which is personal nirvana, entailing liberation.
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