A Pratyeka Buddha (Sanskritpratyekabuddha; Palipacceka-buddha) is one of three types of enlightened beings according to some schools of Buddhism (the others being the śrāvakas and Samyaksam-Buddhas). They are said to achieve enlightenment on their own, without the use of teachers or guides, by contemplating the principle of dependent arising. They are said to arise only in ages where the Buddhist teachings, or dhamma, are lost, and many may arise at a single time. Unlike Supreme Buddhas (see bodhi), their enlightenment is not foretold.
Some schools assert that pratyekabuddhas are not omniscient, while others say that they are the same (in realisation) as Bodhisattva Buddhas, but do not have the will to teach the Dharma.
They are said to achieve enlightenment on their own, without the use of teachers or guides, by contemplating the principle of dependent arising.
Some schools assert that pratyekabuddhas are not omniscient, while others say that they are the same (in realisation) as Bodhisattva Buddhas, but do not have the will to teach the Dharma.
Although they do not have nonconceptual cognition of the voidness of the true unimputed existence of all phenomena, they have a limited cognition of this voidness with respect to their aggregates, namely that their aggregates are devoid of existing as truly unimputedly existent continuities or rough aggregations.
Pratyekabuddha aryas have, in addition, half the nonconceptual cognition of the voidness of true unimputed existence of all phenomena, namely only with respect to objects of cognition.
Pratyekabuddha aryas have, in addition, the nonconceptual cognition of the voidness of phenomena in terms of the Chittamatra assertion concerning forms of physical phenomena.
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