Śrāvaka
Sanskrit word for a disciple used in Buddhism and Jainism / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Śrāvaka (Sanskrit) or Sāvaka (Pali) means "hearer" or, more generally, "disciple". This term is used in Buddhism and Jainism. In Jainism, a śrāvaka is any lay Jain so the term śrāvaka has been used for the Jain community itself (for example see Sarak and Sarawagi). Śrāvakācāras are the lay conduct outlined within the treaties by Śvetāmbara or Digambara mendicants. "In parallel to the prescriptive texts, Jain religious teachers have written a number of stories to illustrate vows in practice and produced a rich répertoire of characters.".[1]
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Translations of Śrāvaka | |
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Sanskrit | श्रावक śrāvaka |
Pali | sāvaka |
Burmese | သာဝက (MLCTS: θàwəka̰) |
Chinese | 聲聞 (Pinyin: shēngwén) |
Japanese | 声聞 (Rōmaji: shōmon) |
Khmer | សាវ័ក (Saveak) |
Sinhala | ශ්රාවක (Shravaka) |
Thai | สาวก (Sawok) |
Vietnamese | Thanh-văn |
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In Buddhism, the term is sometimes reserved for distinguished disciples of the Buddha.