Sotāpanna
One without the first 3 fetters in Buddhism / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Buddhism, a sotāpanna (Pali) or śrotāpanna (Sanskrit) (Chinese: 入流; pinyin: rùliú, Chinese: 须陀洹; pinyin: xū tuó huán; Burmese: သောတာပန်; Tibetan: རྒྱུན་ཞུགས་; Wylie: rgyun zhugs[1])—interpreted variously as a "stream-enterer", "stream-winner",[2] or "stream-entrant"[3]—is a person who has seen the dharma and thereby has dropped the first three fetters (Pāli: samyojana; Sanskrit: saṃyojana) that bind a being to a possible rebirth in one of the three lower realms (animals, hungry ghosts, and beings suffering in and from hellish states), namely self-view (sakkāya-ditthi), clinging to rites and rituals (sīlabbata-parāmāsa), and skeptical indecision (Vicikitsa).
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The word sotāpanna literally means "one who entered (āpanna) the stream (sota); stream-enterer", after a metaphor which calls the noble eightfold path a stream which leads to a vast ocean, nibbāna.[4] Entering the stream (sotāpatti) is the first of the four stages of enlightenment.[5]