She was awakened and entered the first stage of Arhatship.

After he attained arhatship, he began to think deeply of his parents, and wondered what happened to them.

One hundred and twenty million gods and humans gain arhatship from this experience.

In some respects, the path to arhatship and the path to complete enlightenment are seen as having common grounds.

From the strength of the fire-light samadhi, I accomplished Arhatship.

There are even some Mahāyāna texts that regard the aspiration to arhatship and personal liberation as an outside path.

Meditation here means the superhuman (not supernatural) qualities, or arhatship in its highest of spiritual powers.

Bodhisattva of course has arhatship in the same way as Śrāvaka and Pratyekabuddha.

Its goal is Arhatship.

The goal of Hinayana is Arhatship and Nirvana.

This is called attaining the "fruition of arhatship," or the "arhat fruit" (Sanskrit: arhattaphala).

Hence this sutra shows only an opposition to those who deny the teachings presented in the sutra, not to mainstream practitioners working towards Arhatship.

He also provides an account of a cremation at Mahavihara that he personally attended of a highly respected śramaṇa who attained the arhatship.

However, when the other monks learned of Nanda's wish they ridiculed him and he eventually saw his motive as base, and renouncing desire, attained Arhatship.

In her reply, Nāgadatta rejects arhatship as a lower path, saying, "A Buddha's wisdom is like empty space of the ten-quarters, which can enlighten innumerable people."

The focus of practice is primarily on attaining Arhatship and the Pali Canon has examples of both male and female Arhats who attained nirvana.

Mahayan Buddhism has viewed the śrāvaka path culminating in arhatship as a lesser accomplishment than complete enlightenment, but still accords due respect to arhats for their respective achievements.

The Mahāsāṅghikas argued that the Sthaviras were trying to expand the vinaya and may also have challenged what they perceived were excessive claims or inhumanly high criteria for arhatship.

Instead of aspiring for arhatship, Mahayanins are urged to instead take up the path of the bodhisattva and to not fall back to the level of arhats and śrāvakas.

While some interpret this passage to indicate that these householders have attained arhatship, others interpret it to mean they have attained at least "stream entry" (sotāpanna) but not final release.

Depending on the motivation and skilful Methods to enhance this understanding of the true nature of phenomena some practitioners may attain the state of Arhatship and some may achieve the goal of Buddhahood.

His torturers however failed to injure him and he appeared able to neutralise their torture methods by realising that the suffering of the other prisoners is part of the Buddhist dogma of suffering and attaining arhatship.

In the parable, the carts are explicitly identified as corresponding to the three types of Buddha: the goat-cart represents the practices leading to the attainment of Arhatship; the deer-cart, Pratyekabuddhahood; and the bullock-cart, Samyaksambuddhahood.

The Bhikkhus assembled about him and the dying Gotama noticed that Ananda was not among them, but stood a way off, weeping because his Master was about to pass away and he had not attained Arhatship.

Although sūtras sometimes remind Buddhist that Tathāgata is arhatship, the rank of Buddhism is already insignificant and is in condition to exist as "being in such a state or condition" or "of such a quality or nature".