bodhicitta

84000 Standard Definition

In the general Mahāyāna teachings the mind of awakening (bodhicitta) is the intention to attain the complete awakening of a perfect buddha for the sake of all beings. On the level of absolute truth, the mind of awakening is the realization of the awakened state itself.

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Tibetan

བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས,བྱང་ཆུབ་ཏུ་སེམས,སེམས,བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས,སེམས་བསྐྱེད,བྱང་སེམས

byang chub kyi sems,byang chub tu sems,sems,byang chub sems,sems bskyed,byang sems

Sanskrit

citta,bodhicitta

Chinese

菩提心