Arhat, referred to as Arhat for short, Sanskrit translation. It means killing a thief, being lifeless and repenting. To kill a thief is to kill a thief who has all his troubles. Inanimity is to free life and death from the world. What should be offered, heaven and earth support. In Hinayana Buddhism, the practice of Buddhism by the disciples of the Great Buddha is the highest fruit.
Luohan people are pure in body and mind, and their ignorance troubles are over (killing thieves). I escaped from life and death, and I entered nirvana (no life). Be respected and supported by everyone. Before the end of his life, he still lived in a world with few desires, forbidding morality, purity and educating people with his life. Arhat, that is, self-nature, is the third in Mahayana Buddhism, lower than Buddha and Bodhisattva, and Arhat is the highest fruit that can be achieved in practice in upper Buddhism.
Historical background
There are often sixteen arhats, eighteen arhats and five hundred arhats in Mahayana Buddhist temples in China. There is a saying in the Tang Dynasty that when the Great Buddha is in nirvana, he seeks to prolong his life at the 16th National Congress and live in the world, thus becoming a blessing to all beings. So Buddhist temples often carve arhats in the jungle to support many people.
Eighteen arhats are sixteen arhats plus two arhats of dragon and tiger in the world. Five hundred arhats usually refer to the five hundred arhats of monks who were often enlightened before the Buddha's death, or the five hundred arhats who collected Buddhist classics after the Buddha's nirvana.
In the Five Dynasties, the sixteen arhats painted by the Buddhist monk Guan Xiu were the best of the arhats, with their informal posture, strange bones and beautiful appearance.