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Did Buddha go through the stages of sotapanna/sakadagami/anagami before his enlightenment?
The orthodox Theravada interpretation is that he went through all four stages.
[I]n the course of his long wanderings in samsāra, the bodhisatta had been to all the realms except the five suddhāvāsa ...
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In which ways do anagamis still experience ignorance?
According to MN 9 (below), as long as you still have fermentation or effluents, you would still have ignorance, and vice versa (also see this question). Ignorance is a very deeply ingrained and deeply ...
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In which ways do anagamis still experience ignorance?
Ignorance as the last fetter is merely a broad fetter including any type of attachment or self-view that still may arise.
For example, the life of the anagami may be threatened with deadly violence ...
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What's the canonical definition of end of the buddha sāsana?
I was under the impression that the end of buddha sāsana occurs when noble eight-fold path(and the dhamma practitioners) disappear form all the realms including Śuddhāvāsa where only anāgāmins live.
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Looking for an online resource of the commentary(SNA.ii.476; SA.i.155) which says that the Brahma Sahampati was an Anagami from the Suddhavasa realms
The Sutta Nipata source is Sn-A 3.10:
Roman Pali:
http://tipitaka.org/romn/cscd/s0505a.att2.xml
Sinhalese Pali:
http://tipitaka.org/sinh/cscd/s0505a.att2.xml
The relevant passage is:
Atha kho ...
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In which ways do anagamis still experience ignorance?
The one sutta that came to mind regarding your request had neither avijja nor anagami, but I think it may have an answer to your question according to my reading of the sutta:
In SN22.89, we read ...
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What is path and fruition?
But what is the attainment of path? How would one describe rightly the
attainment of the path?
The path to nibbana has four steps as you mentioned stream entry, once returner, non returner, ...
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Can someone give references of the four stages of enlightenment in the four major Nikayas?
It appears in many sutta of many nikāya.
The Example
Sutta Pitaka Vol 1 : Sutta. Tī. Sī Mahālisuttaṃ:
‘And what, Sir, may those other things be?’
‘In the first place, Mahāli, a brother by the ...
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Can a arahant recognize the spiritual attainment of others?
Depending on our freedom from delusions, we can recognize conditions of equal or lesser purity.
It's like looking through glass: if other's glass is dirtier, you can see that, but if it's cleaner, ...
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