Sotāpanna

Buddhism is based on a "person" who has overcome the first three fetters of the mind ( samyojana ) Sotapanna ( Pali ). In English it is usually translated as " power -enterer ", stream-entry is called in Pali Sotapatti. In the imagery of Buddhism Samsara is this world's ( afflicted with suffering) shore, Nibbana, the transcendent ( sorry free ) shore and reaching the other shore ( Nibbana ) is the crossing of a stream necessary. Stream-entry means is that someone has entered " the stream of enlightenment ", ie the path to Nibbana is irreversible for him. Sotapatti is the first of the four stages of holiness.

From a Sotapanna is said he had an intuitive understanding of the Buddha's teaching ( right view ) and complete confidence in them. It also said about current Occurred to them that the open " the eye of the Dhamma " ( dhammacakkhu ) because in them the unshakable knowledge that has matured " must also go under everything is somehow emerged again " ( non- resistance).

The three fetters have been destroyed in Sotapatti are:

A Sotapanna is safe from falling back into deeper realms of existence, he will not be reborn as an animal, hungry ghost or hell beings. A Sotapanna must go through before Nibbana is reached at most seven rebirths.

Why a Sotapanna is not in a position is the following:

In the Pali canon Sotapanna is described as follows in the Sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya Alagaddūpama:

"Bhikkhus, the Dhamma, which was delivered in such a way from me, so is clear, open, clear and free of patchwork. In this Dhamma, which was announced in such a way from me well, that is clear, open, clear and free of patchwork, those monks who have overcome three fetters, all current Occurred that are no longer subject to corruption, which on the path ( to liberation ), the go to meet the enlightenment. "