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Supra-mundane stages, fetters and rebirths (according to the Sutta Piṭaka)
stage's fruit	abandoned fetters		rebirth(s) until suffering's end
stream-enterer	1. identity view 2. doubt 3. ritual attachment	lower fetters	up to seven more times as a human or in a heaven
once-returner			once more as a human
non-returner	4. sensual desire 5. ill will		once more in a pure abode
arahant	6. material-rebirth lust 7. immaterial-rebirth lust 8. conceit 9. restlessness 10. ignorance	higher fetters	none
Source: Ñāṇamoli & Bodhi (2001), Middle-Length Discourses, pp. 41-43.

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Template:StagesFettersRebirths tabularizes Buddhist notions found in the Pali canon regarding:

• the four stages of enlightenment
• the associated eradicated fetters that bind one to samsara;
• the associated number and types of rebirth.

Buddhist canonical sources for this information include the Ākaṅkheyya Sutta ("If One Wishes Discourse," MN 6) and the Alagaddūpama Sutta ("Snake-Simile Discourse," MN 22).

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This table's first note's tag is associated with the table's subtitle, "according to the Sutta Piṭaka." The second note's tag is associated with table's header's phrase, "stage fruit." The third note's tag is associated with the table's first column's "non-returner" phrase. This tables's end notes are:

1. See, for instance, the "Snake-Simile Discourse" (MN 22), where the Buddha is said to have proclaimed:

   "Monks, this Teaching so well proclaimed by me, is plain, open, explicit, free of patchwork. In this Teaching that is so well proclaimed by me and is plain, open, explicit and free of patchwork; for those who are arahants, free of taints, who have accomplished and completed their task, have laid down the burden, achieved their aim, severed the fetters binding to existence, who are liberated by full knowledge, there is no (future) round of existence that can be ascribed to them.... [T]hose monks who have abandoned the five lower fetters will all be reborn spontaneously (in the Pure Abodes) and there they will pass away finally, no more returning from that world.... [T]hose monks who have abandoned three fetters and have reduced greed, hatred and delusion, are all once-returners, and, returning only once to this world, will then make an end of suffering.... [T]hose monks who have abandoned three fetters, are all stream-enterers, no more liable to downfall, assured, and headed for full Enlightenment. (Nyanaponika, 2006)

2. The "fruit" (Pali: phala) is the culmination of the "path" (magga). Thus, for example, the "stream-enterer" is the fruit for one on the "stream-entry" path; more specifically, the stream-enterer has abandoned the first three fetters, while one on the path of stream-entry strives to abandon these fetters.
3. Both the stream-enterer and the once-returner abandon the first three fetters. In addition, the once-returner attenuates lust, hate and delusion.

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Sources

It is recommended that the following reference(s) be copy-and-pasted into the transcluding article's sources/bibliography section. The source for this table is:

• Ñāṇamoli, Bhikkhu (trans.) and Bodhi, Bhikkhu (ed.) (2001). The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya. Boston: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-072-X.

In addition, if this table's notes are used, then the following source should be added to support the first note's block quote:

• Nyanaponika Thera (trans.) (1974). Alagaddupama Sutta: The Snake Simile (MN 22). Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. Retrieved 15 Aug. 2010 from "Access to Insight" (2006) at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.nypo.html .