Pratyeka

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[pruht-yey-kuh] / prʌtˈjeɪ kə /

noun

1. (in Mahayana Buddhism) a buddha who enters into nirvana without teaching others.

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Etymology

Origin of Pratyeka

Shortening of Sanskrit pratyekabuddha, equivalent to pratyeka alone, by oneself + buddha Buddha

Example Sentences

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Pratyeka

There is a monastery, containing perhaps 600 or 700 monks, in which there is a place where a Pratyeka Buddha used to take his food.

From A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline by Faxian

At this place there are as many as a thousand topes of Arhans and Pratyeka Buddhas.

From Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han by Sir John Francis Davis

Mrs. Besant's partiality for the Pratyeka Buddha, however, may possibly be explained by some words that H. P. B. once wrote of her to Mr. Judge:—"She is not psychic or spiritual in the least—all intellect."

From H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal by Alice Leighton Cleather

As the ideal hermit, the Pratyeka Buddha is compared with the rhinoceros khadga that lives lonely in the wilderness.

From A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline by Faxian

Pratyeka Buddhas are those Bodhisattvas who strive after and often reach the Dharmakaya robe after a series of lives.

From H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal by Alice Leighton Cleather