Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c8.s8.22
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c8.s8.22
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c8.s8.22
All the arhats, it seems, did not possess the paṭisambhidās, which a bodhisattva acquires among others in the ninth bhūmi. It is often found that an arhat who possessed paṭisambhidā also was specially described as sahapaṭisambhidā arahattam pāpuṇi (i.e., attained arahathood with paṭisambhidā).¹