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Buddhism

Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...

, an anāgāmi (Sanskrit

Sanskrit

Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

 and Pāli

Páli

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 for "non-returning") is a partially enlightened

Bodhi

Bodhi is both a Pāli and Sanskrit word traditionally translated into English with the word "enlightenment", but which means awakened. In Buddhism it is the knowledge possessed by a Buddha into the nature of things...

 person who has cut off the first five chain

Fetter (Buddhism)

In Buddhism, a mental fetter, chain or bond shackles a sentient being to sasāra, the cycle of lives with dukkha. By cutting through all fetters, one attains nibbāna ....

s that bind the ordinary mind. Anagami-ship is the third of the four stages of enlightenment

Four stages of enlightenment

The four stages of enlightenment in Buddhism are the four progressive stages culminating in full enlightenment as an Arahat, which an average, instructed person can attain in this life...

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Anagamis are not reborn into the human world after death, but into the heaven of the Pure Abodes, where only anagamis live. There they attain full enlightenment (arahantship).

The Pali terms for the specific chains or fetters (Pali: ) of which an anagami is free are:

1. : Belief in self
2. Vicikicchā: Skeptical doubt
3. Sīlabbata-parāmāsa: Attachment to rites and rituals
4. Kāma-rāga: Sensuous craving
5. Byāpāda: Ill will

The fetters from which an anagami is not yet free are:

1. Rūpa-rāga: Craving for fine-material existence (the first 4 jhanas)
2. Arūpa-rāga: Craving for immaterial existence (the last 4 jhanas)
3. Māna
   Māna
   Māna, sometimes māno is a concept wants of human, wrong understood of them self or motive in Buddhism....
   
   : Conceit
4. Uddhacca: Restlessness
5. Avijjā: Ignorance

Anagamis are at an intermediate stage between sakadagami

Sakadagami

In Buddhism, the Sakadagami , "returning once" or "once-returner," is a partially-enlightened person, who has cut off the first three chains with which the ordinary mind is bound, and significantly weakened the fourth and fifth...

s and arahants. Arahants enjoy complete freedom from the ten fetter

Fetter (Buddhism)

In Buddhism, a mental fetter, chain or bond shackles a sentient being to sasāra, the cycle of lives with dukkha. By cutting through all fetters, one attains nibbāna ....

s.

Attaining the state of non-returner is portrayed in the early texts as the ideal goal for laity.

Sources

• Rhys Davids, T.W. & William Stede (eds.) (1921-5). The Pali Text Society’s Pali–English Dictionary. Chipstead: Pali Text Society
  Pali Text Society
  The Pali Text Society was founded in 1881 by T.W. Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pali texts".Pali is the language in which the texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism is preserved...
  
  . A general on-line search engine for the PED is available at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/.