Ashaiksha, Aśaikṣa: 7 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Aśaikṣa can be transliterated into English as Asaiksa or Ashaiksha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita SastraAśaikṣa (अशैक्ष) refers to the “teacher” (as opposed to Śaikṣa—‘student’), according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 25.—Accordingly: “sometimes the bodhisattva sees all dharmas as triple. What is this triplicity? [All the dharmas] are lower, middling or higher; good, bad or indeterminate; existent, non-existent, neither existent nor non-existent; to be abandoned by seeing the truths, to be abandoned by meditation, not to be abandoned; pertaining to the student (śaikṣa), pertaining to the teacher (aśaikṣa), pertaining to neither the student or the teacher; involving retribution, not involving retribution, involving neither retribution nor the absence of retribution. [The patience consisting] of destroying unity by means of innumerable ternary categories of this type without, however, being attached to multiplicity is called dharmakṣānti”.
Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the GaganagañjaparipṛcchāAśaikṣa (अशैक्ष) refers to the “path beyond training”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “What then, son of good family, is the recollection of the dharma (dharmānusmṛti), which is authorized by the Lord for the sake of the Bodhisattvas? [...] The Bodhisattva, knowing that all dharmas are not originated because of their intrinsic nature, attains the tolerance that all things are unborn. This state of being is the true dharma. [...] He who understands thus understands all dharmas, since it is the way in which the people on the path of training or on the path beyond training (śaikṣa-aśaikṣa), the isolated Buddhas (Pratyekabuddha), the Bodhisattvas, and the perfectly awakened one understand all dharmas. Such concentration is the liberation of all the holy, and in that there is no involvement with any dharma. The absence of involvement with any dharma is the recollection of the dharma, which is authorized by the Lord”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAśaikṣa (अशैक्ष).—An Arhat (no longer or pupil).
Derivable forms: aśaikṣaḥ (अशैक्षः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAśaikṣa (अशैक्ष).—m. (= Pali asekha, asekkha; neg. of śaikṣa, q.v.), one who no longer needs religious training, being in the 8th stage (see Childers s.v. sekho); = arhant: °ṣaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 1734; °ṣa-mārgaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 1320, the third parivarta of the dharmacakra, in which ‘misery is known, its origin abandoned, its suppression attained, the way leading to its suppression realized’ (1321—24). Often in [compound] śaik- ṣāśaikṣa, or bracketed with śaikṣa as separate word; see śaikṣa; its place may be taken by arhant, e.g. Mahāvastu i.158.7; Divyāvadāna 399.24. Written aśaiṣya in Lalitavistara 250.18, see s.v. śaiṣya.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAśaikṣa (अशैक्ष):—[=a-śaikṣa] m. ‘no longer a pupil’, an Arhat, [Buddhist literature]
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Starts with: Ashaikshaskandha.
Ends with: Naivashaikshanashaiksha, Shaikshashaiksha.
Full-text (+10): Shaiksha, Naivashaikshanashaiksha, Anathapindada, Sphotakam, Tenfold-path, Nishthamarga, Asekha, Ananda, Vidya-carana, Vimokshamukha, Bhuta, Praviveka, Caranasampad, Vidyasampad, Vidyacaranasampad, Sampad, Cetanadharman, Prativedhanabhavya, Ubhayatobhagavimukta, Anurakshanadharman.
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