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. 

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

The enlightenment corresponding to pratyekabuddhas.

See “pratyekabuddha.”

See “solitary buddha.”