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    In Buddhism, humans are considered sentient beings with a mindstream. While enlightenment can be attained in other forms, only humans can become fully enlightened Buddhas. The most favorable conditions for attaining enlightenment as a human include being born at a time and place where Buddha's teachings are known, having the capacity to understand Dharma, believing in karma, avoiding crimes, and having compassion for others.

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    Man According To Buddhism

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    In Buddhism, humans are considered sentient beings with a mindstream. While enlightenment can be attained in other forms, only humans can become fully enlightened Buddhas. The most favorable conditions for attaining enlightenment as a human include being born at a time and place where Buddha's teachings are known, having the capacity to understand Dharma, believing in karma, avoiding crimes, and having compassion for others.

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    In Buddhism, humans are considered sentient beings with a mindstream. While enlightenment can be attained in other forms, only humans can become fully enlightened Buddhas. The most favorable conditions for attaining enlightenment as a human include being born at a time and place where Buddha's teachings are known, having the capacity to understand Dharma, believing in karma, avoiding crimes, and having compassion for others.

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    Man According to Buddhism

    - In Buddhism, humans are just one type of sentient being, that is a being with a mindstream. In
    Sanskrit Manushya means an Animal with a mind.
    - In Sanskrit the word Manusmriti associated with Manushya was used to describe knowledge
    through memory.
    - The word Muun or Maan means mind.
    - Mind is collection of past experience with an ability of memory or smriti.
    - Mind is considered as an animal with a disease that departs a soul from its universal enlightened
    infinitesimal behavior to the finite miserable fearful behavior that fluctuates between the state
    of heaven and hell before it is extinguished back to its infinitesimal behavior.
    - In Buddhism, humans have a very special status: only a human can attain enlightenment as a
    fully enlightened Buddha.
    - Enlightenment as an arhat can be attained from the realms of the Śuddhāvāsa deities. A
    bodhisattva can appear in many different types of lives, for instance as an animal or as a deva.
    Buddhas, however, are always human.[1]

    Among humans there are also better and worse conditions for attaining enlightenment. Besides
    being born as a human, the favorable conditions for obtaining enlightenment are:

     Being born a human at a time when a Buddha has arisen, has taught the Dharma, and has
    left a Saṅgha that carries on the teachings; at such times there is a chance to learn the
    Dharma.
     Being born a human in countries where the Dharma is known. Buddhist commentaries
    contrast the "central lands" where Buddhism is known and can be practiced (originally
    just northern India, but now including a much larger portion of the globe) with "border
    countries" where Buddhism is unknown or cannot be practiced due to legal or practical
    impediments, for instance, a lack of qualified teachers. Technically a "central land" is one
    which possesses any one of the Buddhist saṅghas of bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, upāsakas or
    upāsikās.
     Being born a human who has the physical and intellectual capacity to grasp the basic
    message of the Dharma.
     Accepting the relationship between good or evil actions and their consequences,
    believing that good actions will lead to a happier life, a better rebirth or to enlightenment.
     Confidence in the moral teachings conveyed in the Vinaya.
     Avoiding crimes against people and against the Dharma.
     Having sincere compassion for other people.[6]

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