In Chinese/Buddhist culture what is a lohan?

In the Chinese or Buddhist culture/religion what is a lohan? I am looking at a work of pottery

and the title says that it is a depiction of a lohan. It is from the University of Penns Museum of
Anthropology and Archeology. The work shows an asian man dressed in a colorful robe. Could
someone please tell me what a lohan is because I am currently writing a paper for this work
and i need to know.
The first comments are funny but i really need to know what a lohan is. So can someone give
me a real answer, not just a joke, please.

a luohan is an ARHAT.

Arthat is the general stage of enlightment/attainment just before Bodhisattvahood.

Bodhisattvahood is the stage right before becoming fully enlightened as a Buddha.

Arhats have attained the stage of detachment in which desires and idle thoughts are virtually
at a complete halt. Because of this level of attainment, an Arhat is free from life, death, and
rebirth and suffering. We are not discussing the 1st or 2nd stage of arhats. We are referring to
ARHAT as a FULL ARHAT, completed ARHAT. An earlier stage Arhat will eventaully attain full
Arthatship after a few more rebirths. Their attainment is very close.

Anyway, the Arhat, at this stage, can either stay or go on and work towards becoming a
Buddha. Though many Arhats fail to see the need to continue further since at their present
stage, suffering has ended as their desires, life, death, and rebirth have ended which is the
primary goal of Buddhism.

This is where you will see the great divide in Mahayana and Theravadan Buddhism. Theravada
follows the path up to Arhatship, as they believe this is the end-result. Thusly, they do not
practice any other path. The Mahayana doctrine and practice goes beyond the reach of
Arhatship because the goal is to not just liberate the self by becoming Arhat, they will choose
to continue on after Arhatship, liberate other living beings as a Bodhisattva, thusly practicing
and eventually perfecting the merits, virtues, and attainment and full enlightenment of
Buddhahood.

So in this case, an Arhat believes that all of this existence is suffering and we must detach from
it. This is the point in which we define as the HAIRLINE incompletion of enlightenment in the
stage of Arhat. It is this very notion that separates the attainment of Arhats and those of
Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.

While Arhats believe this world and triple realm is a false form and we must detach from it
entirely because it binds us, the Mahayana doctrine and the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are
saying, no thats incomplete there is actually nothing that binds us. This is a powerful
difference in fundamentals. [[edit: we are binded/attached because we are fooled by the
illusion of the form existence. And though Arhats detach and no longer believe in the form
existence as humans do, the hairline flaw in their beliefs is that something is even true or false
at all... meaning, it's a subtle acknowledgement that this emptiness is not really empty.]]

The Theravadans acknowledge that something is there and we must detach from IT
therefore, there is something still there. The Mahayana doctrine realizes that yes, we must
first acknowledge that this form existence is false and we must detach from it, thus we attain
Arhatship. But then we must continue further to release ourselves and liberate ourselves from
the notion of ANYTHING being false or true at all. If something can be false or true, then we
acknowledge an existence or form.

To sum that up:

Realize that all these materials and forms are false and empty, detach from them. We unbind
ourselves from the material world. Thus, we become Arhats.

As Arhats, we now render the emptiness as true emptiness and not as someTHING to detach
from. What once binded us, such as cars and money, was actually false and an illusion. We
thought something was there, but there isnt. So if nothing is there, then what sense is there
to say anything is binding us at all? Emptiness is nothing, nothing is nothingness, therefore,
there is nothing, Thusly, we now enter Bodhisattvahood of enlightenment as we realize there
is nothing that binds. Everything is truly empt