Shravaka yana
[[Image:Shravakas.JPG|frame|Shravaka disciples from the Longchen Nyingtik Field of Merit)]
| The Nine Yanas |
| 1. Shravaka yana |
| Skt. śrāvaka yāna |
| Tib. ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་ |
| nyentö kyi tekpa |
| Wyl. {{{wylie}}} |
| Read main article for nine yana overview |
| Three Outer Yanas Leading From the Origin |
| 1. Shravaka yana |
| 2. Pratyekabuddha yana |
| 3. Bodhisattva yana |
| Three Yanas of Vedic Asceticism |
| 4. Yana of kriya tantra |
| 5. Yana of charya tantra |
| 6. Yana of yoga tantra |
| Three Yanas of Powerful Transformative Methods |
| 7. Yana of tantra mahayoga |
| 8. Yana of scriptural transmission anuyoga |
| 9. Yana of pith instruction atiyoga |
Shravaka yana — the 'vehicle' (Skt. yana) of Buddhist teachings followed by shravakas; a subdivision of the basic yana and the first of the nine yanas according to the Nyingma classification.
Generally speaking, the Sanskrit word ‘shravaka’ has both the meaning of listening and of hearing, so [the Tibetan translation nyenthö literally means] ‘listener-hearer.’
Alternatively, the term can be understood to mean ‘listening and proclaiming,’ in the sense that the shravakas rely on masters and then proclaim to others all the words their teachers have spoken.
Overview Given by Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
Entry Point
The shravakas are motivated by a feeling of renunciation, the wish to escape from all the realms of samsara by themselves alone.
With this motivation, they receive one of the seven sets of pratimoksha vows, those of a male or female lay practitioner, novice monk or nun, probationary nun, or fully ordained monk or nun, and having received these vows, they practise moral restraint, keeping their vows unimpaired, repairing any impairments that do occur, and so on.
View
As the basis of their path, they determine their view by focusing upon all phenomena included within the five aggregates and realizing that they are devoid of any personal self.
They do not understand that all material and conscious phenomena are devoid of true reality, and, asserting a truly real partless particle in perceived objects and an indivisible moment of consciousness, they fail to realize the absence of phenomenal identity.
Meditation
In terms of the path, they practise both shamatha and vipashyana meditation.
They realize the state of shamatha by abandoning obstacles and cultivating factors conducive to samadhi, according to the nine stages of resting the mind and so on, and generate the wisdom of vipashyana by meditating on the sixteen aspects of the four noble truths.
Conduct
They keep to the twelve ascetic practices that avoid the two extreme forms of lifestyle, over-indulgence in sense pleasures and excessive self-punishment.
Results
They attain any one of eight levels of fruition, corresponding to the degree to which they have abandoned the kleshas of the three realms. There are eight levels because the four results of stream-enterer, once-returner, non-returner and arhat are each divided into the two stages known as the emerging and the established.
