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Translations of bodhicitta | |
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English | enlightenment-mind |
Sanskrit | बोधिचित्त |
Chinese | 菩提心 (Pinyin: pútíxīn) |
Japanese | 菩提心 (Rōmaji: bodaishin) |
Khmer | ពោធិចិត្ត (UNGEGN: pothichet) |
Korean | 보리심 (RR: borisim) |
Tibetan | བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས (byang chub kyi sems) |
Thai | โพธิจิต (RTGS: photichit) |
Vietnamese | Bồ-đề tâm |
Glossary of Buddhism |
In Mahayana Buddhism, bodhicitta,[a] ("enlightenment-mind" or "the thought of awakening"), is the mind (citta) that is aimed at awakening (bodhi), with wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all sentient beings.[1][2]
Bodhicitta is the defining quality of the Mahayana bodhisattva (a being striving towards Buddhahood) and the act of giving rise to bodhicitta (bodhicittotpāda) is what makes a bodhisattva a bodhisattva. The Daśabhūmika Sūtra explains that the arising of bodhicitta is the first step in the bodhisattva's career.[3]
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