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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 |
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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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- ^ Das, Surya (1998). Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World. Broadway Books. pp. 145–146. ISBN 0-76790157-6.
- ^ Dayal, Har (1970). The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature, p. 59. Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
- ^ Dayal, Har (1970). The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature, p. 50. Motilal Banarsidass Publ.