(idiom) In traditional Chinese medicine, this refers to the developmental cycles of life: women are associated with cycles of seven and men with cycles of eight.
(idiom) In Buddhist doctrine, refers to one who has attained the first fruit of the Lesser Vehicle but must still undergo seven cycles of birth and death before attaining arhatship.
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