Sentence examples for have achieved enlightenment from inspiring English sources

Gautama Buddha is said to have achieved enlightenment there, under a tree.

Those who have achieved enlightenment can opt to be reborn, to help those less blessed.

One who is successful in doing so is said to have overcome the round of rebirths and to have achieved enlightenment.

Salzberg went to a retreat led by Goenka — her first — in January 1971, in Bodh Gaya, India, the town where the Buddha is said to have achieved enlightenment.

The Buddha was supposed to have achieved enlightenment by the light of the full Moon, and as belief in a Moon goddess faded with the advent of Christianity, Mr. Brunner tells us, Mary became associated with the Moon.

The most illustrious of those few individuals who have achieved enlightenment are called Jina (literally, "Conqueror"), and the tradition's monastic and lay adherents are called Jain ("Follower of the Conquerors"), or Jaina.

In Sanskrit the word "buddha" means "one who has achieved enlightenment," one who has "awakened" to the true nature of human existence.

To believers, he is the embodiment of wisdom and compassion, a "reincarnate lama," or teacher who has achieved enlightenment yet returns to the human world, lifetime after lifetime, to help others do the same.

Being recognised as a master who has achieved enlightenment but, out of his limitless compassion, has vowed to take rebirth to help reduce the suffering of all sentient beings is merely the latest in a long line of Zen-like achievements for Seagal.

Arhat, ( Sanskrit: "one who is worthy"), Pali arahant, in Buddhism, a perfected person, one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has achieved nirvana (spiritual enlightenment).

"If witnessing an England batting collapse led to self-knowledge," says Peter McLeod, "I'm pretty sure I would have achieved full enlightenment by now".