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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Lo-han. Chin. term (Jap., rakan) for the Theravādin Buddhist arhat, though in Chinese Buddhism they have developed in the direction of minor deities, or (in the case of Chʾan) those who have obtained enlightenment by their effort. They resemble the Hsien, the mountain-dwelling, cloud-riding immortals of Taoism. Major cults and iconography developed.

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A Dictionary of Buddhism | 2004 | | Copyright

lo-han (Chin.). A contraction of the Chinese term a-lo-han, which was used as a phonetic transcription of the Sanskrit Arhat.

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