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LINER NOTES: Four stages in the process of enlightenment were enumerated: first the “stream-enterer”, whose initial vision into the nature of reality destroyed all seeds for rebirth as an animal, ghost or hell-being, and who could enter nirvana in a maximum of seven lifetimes; secondly, the “once-returner”, who would be reborn once more in this world; thirdly the “never-returner”, who would never be reborn in our world but would enter nirvana after rebirth in a heaven; and finally the arhat