Śrāvakas
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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.
"Thus, for the śrāvakas and the rest, their practice, through being distant from the Mother, although it is an antidote, being engaged in the error of apprehending [substantial] things, is for the bodhisattvas to be discarded, and hence an antithesis.
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
The community of monastic/lesser-vehicle disciples whose scholastic or ascetic approach is contrasted with tantric practice.
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.
) "You have trained in the vehicle of the disciples, O monk;