Sixteen arhats are disciples of Sakyamuni Buddha. According to the scripture, they were instructed by the Buddha not to enter nirvana, but to live in the world and be blessed by the world.
The earliest record of the Sixteen Arhats is Mahayana translated by Beiliang Daotai, which records that "the venerable Bintou Road, the venerable Luo Zhuluo, etc., and all sixteen people are scattered in Zhu Zhu ... to protect the Buddha", but the names of the Sixteen Arhats are not listed. It was not until Tang Xuanzang's translation of Notes on the Argument of the Great Lohan Difficult to Timidoro that the names of the Sixteen Lohan were listed in detail. They are:
The first venerable, Dubin Loeb, was lazy and lived with thousands of arhats belonging to his family, mostly in Xiqu Toni.
The second respected Kanogava and his 500 arahants live in Kashmiro in the north.
The third venerable Kanoga was lazy and lived in Dongsheng Shenzhou with the 600 Lohan family.
The fourth venerable Suvinda lives in Luzhou in the north, and his family has 700 arhats.
The fifth venerable Norodo lives in the southern island with his 800 arhats.
Putuo Luo, the sixth venerable, lives in Daluo with his family of 900 arhats.
The seventh Buddha, Caleb, and his family, Thousand Arhats, lived in Sinhalese.
Frodo, the eighth venerable Buddha, lives on Porthorn Island with his 1 100 arhats.
Nine venerable people keep Boga, and bring home 900 arhats to live in Xiangzui Mountain;
The ten holy monks lived with the 1,300 arhats for 33 days.
Luo 11th, who lives in Quzhou, has 1 100 arhats in his family.
The 12th venerable naga rhinoceros, who lives with his 1200 arhat family in Boshan, Guangban;
Because of abstinence, the 13th Venerable Master and his 1,300 arhats live in Guangwei Mountain.
The 14th venerable Vannapus and his 1,400 arhats live on a habitable mountain.
The fifteenth venerable Ashdod lives in Jiufeng Mountain with his 1,500 arhats.
The 16th Buddha lives in Shouzhou Mountain, and his family has 1,600 arhats.
Since then, the Sixteen Arhats have been widely believed by Buddhists in China and gradually spread.