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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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