I think it’s worth noting that the concept of spiritually advanced reborn individuals the tulku institution is based on has its parallels with the EBTs’ concept of kolankola individuals.
If you are interested in finding more about it I suggest checking this topic:
The following has been touched a few times (e.g. here and here ) but to my knowledge not fully yet…
In our common understanding the sotāpanna or stream-enterer is the first category of nobles ones or aryas. (See for two occasionally mentioned two stages before sotāpatti here: https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/faith-follower-dhamma-follower ). Usually we say that a sotāpanna has at most seven more lives to live, yes in a few suttas we have a further discrimination of the sotāpanna into three di…
On a broader sense these other topics may prove interesting read as well:
A friend presented me a very interesting practical questions on the topic of pre-anagami status for which I have no answer and would like to share with you guys.
In a previous topic about the shades of spiritual development typically listed in EBTs we explored a list of gradual attainments which stretches beyond the usual fourfold list of stream-entry / once-returner / non-returner and arahant.
The question is specifically about the case of a birth in the context of attainment of a pre-anag…
In the SN48.15, unfortunately only available in English here , one finds a relationship between the level of development of the five spiritual faculties and ten different levels - or shades - of spiritual development:
At the peak we see arahantship attained through full development of faith, energy / endeavour, presence / mindfulness, stillnes / concentration, wisdom / insight.
Below it the first shades of awakening are the four ways of release: release in the interval (between lifetimes)…
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