Bodhicitta
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 9 anchored passages
bodhicitta · awakening-mind
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Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
The tantric concept of bodhicitta as both the awakening-mind and the subtle wind/seminal essence underlying body, cognition, and ritual.
Bodhicitta is the wind, abiding in space, the very life-breath of beings, fivefold in nature and bearing ten names.
Then the master, concentrated, should bring forth bodhicitta, and having deposited the bodhicitta in a vase or a conch—
Conventional, abiding in the three realities, having the character of the recitation [arising from one's own] nature—this is the supreme bodhicitta, unnameable and unutterable.
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
The 'awakening-mind', the altruistic resolve for enlightenment, credited with miraculous power and cited as licensing unrestricted compassionate action.
bodhicitta}}) and set his heart on full awakening, with the intention of rescuing the world, there is nothing there that may not be done.
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San Hyan Kamahayanikan
The awakened mind, identified with the vajra, whose retention guarantees future Buddhahood.
*Your bodhicitta, which is the vajra, must not be abandoned through the mudrā.
*Bodhicitta* means the sacred *vajra*, which is *bodhicitta*, along with the sacred *mudrā*.