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Buddhism

Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...

, the Sakadagami (Pali

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; Sanskrit: Sakridāgāmi), "returning once" or "once-returner," is a partially-enlightened person

Bodhi

Bodhi is both a Pāli and Sanskrit word traditionally translated into English with the word "enlightenment", but which means awakened. In Buddhism it is the knowledge possessed by a Buddha into the nature of things...

, who has cut off the first three chain

Fetter (Buddhism)

In Buddhism, a mental fetter, chain or bond shackles a sentient being to sasāra, the cycle of lives with dukkha. By cutting through all fetters, one attains nibbāna ....

s with which the ordinary mind is bound, and significantly weakened the fourth and fifth. Sakadagamiship is the second stage of the four stages of enlightenment

Four stages of enlightenment

The four stages of enlightenment in Buddhism are the four progressive stages culminating in full enlightenment as an Arahat, which an average, instructed person can attain in this life...

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The Sakadagami will be reborn into the human world once more. If, however, he attains the next stage of enlightenment (Anagami

Anagami

In Buddhism, an anāgāmi is a partially enlightened person who has cut off the first five chains that bind the ordinary mind. Anagami-ship is the third of the four stages of enlightenment....

ship) in this life, he will not come back to the human world.

The three specific chains or fetters (Pali: ) of which the Sakadagami is free are:

1. (Pali) - Belief in self

2. Vicikicchā (Pali) - Skeptical doubt

3. Sīlabbata-parāmāsa (Pali) - Attachment to rites and rituals

The Sakadagami also significantly weakened the chains of:

4. Kāma-rāga (Pali) - Sensuous craving

5. Byāpāda (Pali) - Ill-will

Thus, the Sakadagami is an intermediate stage between the Sotapanna

Sotapanna

In Buddhism, a Sotāpanna , Srotāpanna , or "stream-winner" is a person who has eradicated the first three fetters of the mind. Sotapanna literally means "one who entered the stream ", after a metaphor which calls the Noble Eightfold Path, 'a stream'...

, who still has comparatively strong sensuous desire and ill-will, and the Anagami

Anagami

In Buddhism, an anāgāmi is a partially enlightened person who has cut off the first five chains that bind the ordinary mind. Anagami-ship is the third of the four stages of enlightenment....

, who is completely free from sensuous desire and ill-will.

Sources

• Rhys Davids, T.W. & William Stede (eds.) (1921-5). The Pali Text Society’s Pali–English Dictionary. Chipstead: Pali Text Society
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  . A general on-line search engine for the PED is available at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/.