The stage on the bodhisattva path at which one will never turn back, or be turned back, from inevitable progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

A stage in the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back.

A stage in the gradual progression toward buddhahood, from which one will no longer regress to lower states.

The stage on the bodhisattva path at which the practitioner will never turn back and will inevitably proceed toward full awakening.

A stage on the bodhisattva path at which the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

A stage in the gradual progression toward buddhahood, from which one will no longer regress to lower states.

A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

See “unable to be turned back.”

A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

The term avaivartika should not be confused with anāgamin. While the first is a Mahāyāna term referring to someone “not turning back,” i.e., irreversibly established on the path to full awakening, the other is a term referring to one who will not return to this world again after death but will attain arhatship in one of the highest heavens.

A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

Name of the bhūmis from the path of seeing on, from which point there is no regression.

The term avaivartika should not be confused with anāgamin. While the first is a Mahāyāna term referring to someone “not turning back,” i.e., irreversibly established on the path to full awakening, the other is a Hīnayāna term referring to an arhat of the third level who will not return to this world again.

See also “irreversibility.”

A stage in the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back.

A stage on the bodhisattva path where the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.

See “irreversible.”

The stage on a bodhisattva’s path when there is no longer any chance of regressing to a preceding stage or state.

A description of a bodhisattva who has reached a particular stage along the path to becoming a buddha at which the bodhisattva is certain of doing so. Different Buddhist works place this stage at different points along the path. According to some works, it is a highly advanced stage that is connected with having received a prediction of future buddhahood. Modern scholars have also sometimes connected it to the acceptance of the fact that things do not arise, but it is also connected with other attainments.