Śrāvakas
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
śrāvakas · disciples · hīnayāna noble beings · monks · the hearers · those fixed in the state of a monk
in the texts
Abhisamayālaṅkāravivaraṇa
Hearer-disciples whose hīnayāna path and realisations are repeatedly compared against, and ranked below, the bodhisattva's Mahāyāna path.
// The [roots] of heat and the rest, in their weak, middling, and strong [degrees], of the protecting bodhisattva are superior to those of the śrāvakas together with the rhinoceros-like [pratyekabuddhas].
the knowledge present in a noble being's continuum, of the nature of a hīnayāna-type realisation, taken up by the wisdom that directly realises the selflessness of persons present in all dharmas — that is its definition.
first, that which knows the śrāvaka path qua path of seeing;
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
The community of monastic/lesser-vehicle disciples whose scholastic or ascetic approach is contrasted with tantric practice.
) "You have trained in the vehicle of the disciples, O monk;
Knowledge devoid of [tantric] means, and the [moral] training too, was taught for the disciples (śrāvakas), O great Hero;
Those who are fixed here in the [mere] state of a monk, and the people who delight in [dry] reasoning, and those fixed in the state of [proud] elders—to them one should not teach the reality.