The Sixteen Arhats (Chinese: 十六羅漢, pinyin: Shíliù Luóhàn, Rōmaji: Jūroku Rakan; Tibetan: གནས་བརྟན་བཅུ་དྲུག, "Neten Chudrug") are a group of legendary Arhats in Buddhism. The grouping of sixteen Arhats was brought to China, and later to Tibet, from India. In China, an expanded group of Eighteen Arhats later became much more popular, but worship of the sixteen Arhats still continues to the present day in China, Japan and Tibet. In Japan sixteen Arhats are particularly popular in Zen Buddhism, where they are treated as examples of behaviour.Manual of Zen Buddhism Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki p.168 In Tibet, the sixteen Arhats, also known as sixteen sthaviras ('elders') are the subject of a liturgical practice associated with the festival of the Buddha's birth,Translation of the prayer to the sixteen arhats (Lotsawa House) composed by the Kashmiri teacher Shakyahribhadra (1127-1225).The life of Shakyashribhadra (Dechen) They are also well represented in Tibetan art.The sixteen arhats in Tibetan art (himalayanart.org)
The sixteen Arhats are:
Sanskrit Chinese Pinyin Rōmaji Tibetan Tibetan pronunciation Piṇḍola Bhāradvāja 賓度羅跋囉惰闍尊者 Bīndùluóbáluōduòdū zūnzhě Bindorabaradaja sonja བྷ་ར་དྭ་ཛ་སོ་ཉོམ་ལེན Bharadwadza Sönyom Le Kanakavatsa 迦諾迦伐蹉尊者 Jiānuòjiāfácuō zūnzhě Kanakabassa sonja གསེར་གྱི་བེའུ Sergyi Be'u Kanaka Bhāradvāja/Kanaka 迦諾迦跋釐堕闍尊者 Jiānuòjiābálíduòdū zūnzhě Kanakabarudaja sonja བྷ་ར་དྭ་ཛ་་གསེར་ཅན Baradwadza Serchen/Serchen Subinda/Abhedya 蘇頻陀尊者 Sūpíntuó zūnzhě Sobinda sonja མི་ཕྱེད་པ Michepa Nakula/Bakula 諾距羅尊者 Nuòjùluó zūnzhě Nakora sonja བ་ཀུ་ལ Bakula Śrībhadra/Bhadra 跋陀羅尊者 Bátuóluó zūnzhě Badara sonja བཟང་པོ Pal Zangpo Mahākālika/Kālika 迦哩迦尊者 Jiālījiā zūnzhě Karika sonja དུས་ལྡན Düden Chenpo Vajriputra 伐闍羅弗多羅尊者 Fádūluófúduōluó zūnzhě Bajarafutara sonja/Bajarahottara sonja རྡོ་རྗེ་མོའི་བུ Dorje Möbu Gopaka/Jīvaka 戎博迦尊者 Róngbójiā zūnzhě Jubaka sonja སྦྱེ་བྱེད་པ Bé Chépa Panthaka 半託迦尊者 Bàntuōjiā zūnzhě Hantaka sonja ལམ་བསྟན Lamchenten Rāhula 囉怙羅尊者 Luōhùluó zūnzhě Ragora sonja སྒྲ་གཅན་འཛིན Drachen Dzin Nāgasena 那伽犀那尊者 Nàjiāxīnà zūnzhě Nagasaina sonja ཀླུ་སྡེ Lü Dé Aṅgaja 因掲陀尊者 Yīnjiētuó zūnzhě Ingada sonja ཡན་ལག་འབྱུང Yenlak Jung Vanavāsin 伐那婆斯尊者 Fánàpósī zūnzhě Banabashi sonja ནགས་ན་གནས Nagnanepa Ajita 阿氏多尊者 Āshìduō zūnzhě Ajita sonja མ་ཕམ་པ Ma Phampa Cūḍapanthaka/Kṣudrapanthaka 注荼半吒迦尊者 Zhùtúbànzhājiā zūnzhě Chudahantaka sonja ལམ་ཕྲན་བསྟན Lamtren Ten
See also
Eighteen Arhats
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