This refers to the awakening of pratyekabuddhas (Tib. rang sangs rgyas).

The awakening of pratyekabuddhas, those who realize the conditioned nature of reality on their own, without the instruction of a buddha in their current lifetime.

One of the different types of awakening (bodhi). Often given in a list of the types of awakening between the awakening of a śrāvaka (“disciple”) or an arhat, as in the previous verse, and “the perfect and complete awakening” (samyaksambodhi) of a buddha or tathāgata, as in the next verse. A pratyekabuddha is someone who has attained awakening, but not as the disciple of a complete buddha (sambuddha), and does not teach the Dharma to others, like a complete buddha does.

Someone who has attained liberation entirely through their own contemplation as a result of progress in previous lives but, unlike a buddha, does not have the accumulated merit and motivation to teach others. 

The enlightenment corresponding to pratyekabuddhas.

See “pratyekabuddha.”

See “solitary buddha.”