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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.". In Buddhism, the term is sometimes reserved for distinguished disciples of the Buddha.

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References

  1. Hecker 2003.
  2. Thanissaro 2006b.
  3. Hecker 2003, p. xvi.
  4. Hecker 2012, p. xvii.
  5. Hecker 2012, p. xvi-xvii.
  6. Acharya (2002), pp. 100-101. (On-line, see the "Glossary" entry for āriya.[1].)
  7. Webu & Bischoff (1995)
  8. Hecker 2012, pp. xxi-xxiii.
  9. Hecker 2012, p. passim.
  10. Hecker 2012, p. xviii-xix.
  11. See the entry for "ariya" in Pali Text Society Pali-English dictionary, and Pali commentaries: Itivuttaka-Atthakatha 2.73, Ekanipata-Atthakatha 1.63, Patisambhidamagga-Atthakatha 1.167, Sammohavinodani-Atthakatha 119, Nettippakarana-Atthakatha Mya:112.
  12. See the translation of Kalama sutta by Soma Thera [2] and Thanissaro Bhikkhu [3]. In the Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation of the Kalama sutta the term "noble disciple" is used instead.
  13. Hecker 2012, p. 379.
  14. Hecker 2003, pp. xviii-xix.
  15. Nyanatiloka 2004, p. 187.
  16. See, for instance, "The Crest of the Standard" discourse (SN 11.3) (Bodhi, 2000, p. 320) as well as Nyanatiloka (1952), entries for "ariya-puggala" ("noble ones") [4] and "sāvaka" [5].
  17. Bodhi Bhikkhu 2005, p. 226.
  18. Hecker 2012, pp. xix-xxi.
  19. The number of foremost disciple categories is evident from scanning Uppalavanna (n.d.-b)
  20. Hecker 2003, p. xxiii.
  21. Bodhi (2000), p. 688.
  22. Bodhi (2000), p. 689.
  23. Uppalavanna (n.d.-a).
  24. According to AN 1.251, Hatthaka of Āḷavī is foremost "to establish liberality, kind speech, leading an useful life and a state of equality among the others".
  25. (Bodhi, 2000, p. 812, n. 329;).
  26. Bodhi (2000), p. 320.
  27. Indaratana (2002), pp. 7-8.
  28. Hecker 2003, p. xvii.
  29. Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton University Press), 2014, p. 850.
  30. Boin-Webb, Sara (tr). Rahula, Walpola (tr). Asanga. Abhidharma Samuccaya: The Compendium of Higher Teaching. 2001. p. 199
  31. Boin-Webb, Sara (tr). Rahula, Walpola (tr). Asanga. Abhidharma Samuccaya: The Compendium of Higher Teaching. 2001. pp. 199-200
  32. Boin-Webb, Sara (tr). Rahula, Walpola (tr). Asanga. Abhidharma Samuccaya: The Compendium of Higher Teaching. 2001. p. 200
  33. P. 396 Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm Over Critical Buddhism edited by Jamie Hubbard, Paul Loren Swanson
  34. From The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam-Rim Chenmo), Pg.239, Volume One. Snow Lion Publications. Ithaca, NY.
  35. Shravakachar Sangrah, Five Volumes, Hiralal Jain Shastri, Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur, 1988
  36. Jaina yoga: a survey of the mediaeval śrāvakācāras By R. Williams
  37. Jaini 1998, pp. 190.
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