Sanskrit Noun
bodhi
enlightenment
बोधि
བྱང་ཆུབ་
菩提,悟,覺
Basic Meaning
Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (byang) and "perfected" (chub), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha.
Simplified English Usage
". . . all beings, regardless of birth, race, social status, and gender, are capable of the attainment of the state of human perfection known as enlightenment."
(Source: page 192, “Liberation: An Indo-Tibetan Perspective” by José Ignacio Cabezón. Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 12 (1992), pp. 191-198 Published by: University of Hawai'i Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1389971)
| Term Variations | |
|---|---|
| Key Term | bodhi |
| Topic Variation | bodhi |
| Tibetan | བྱང་ཆུབ་ ( Changchub) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | byang chub ( Changchub) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | बोधि ( bodhi) |
| Romanized Sanskrit | bodhi ( bodhi) |
| Chinese | 菩提, 悟, 覺 |
| Chinese Pinyin | pú tí, wù, jué |
| Japanese | 悟り |
| Japanese Transliteration | satori |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | enlightenment |
| Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | awakening |
| Richard Barron's English Term | enlightenment, (refined and consummate state of) enlightened being |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | [purified-realized], enlightenment |
| Dan Martin's English Term | clear comprehension ('pure realization'). bodhi. The "chub" goes back to an Old Translation of rtogs pa--chub pa--'realization.' Sometimes byan tshud pa, q.v. is said to be a synonym. |
| Term Information | |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (byang) and "perfected" (chub), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha. |
| Term Type | Noun |
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