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bodhicitta

bodhicitta noun: in Mahayana Buddhism, the intense ontological aspiration to save all beings by following the bodhisattva path to enlightenment.

Noun

bodhicitta (uncountable)

  1. In Mahayana Buddhism, the intense ontological aspiration to save all beings by following the bodhisattva path to enlightenment.
  2. The bodhisattva path to nirvana.

bodhicitta meaning in Bengali, Vietnamese and Myanmar

bodhicitta in Bengali

মহাযান বৌদ্ধধর্মে, নির্বাণ লাভের বোধিসত্ত্ব পথ

bodhicitta in Vietnamese

bodhisattva path to nirvana
bồ đề tâm

bodhicitta in Myanmar

bodhisattva path to nirvana
ဗောဓိစိတ္တ bau:dhi.citta.

Origin of bodhicitta

From Sanskrit बोधिचित्त (bodhicitta, literally “mind of enlightenment, spirit of awakening”), from बोधि (bodhi, “awakening, enlightenment”) + चित्त (cittá, “mind, spirit, reason”).

Questions about bodhicitta

What does bodhicitta mean?
Bodhicitta means in Mahayana Buddhism, the intense ontological aspiration to save all beings by following the bodhisattva path to enlightenment.
What is bodhicitta in Bengali?
Bodhicitta in Bengali is মহাযান বৌদ্ধধর্মে, নির্বাণ লাভের বোধিসত্ত্ব পথ. See Bodhicitta meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is bodhicitta?
Bodhicitta is a noun.

Words near bodhicitta in the dictionary

  1. Bodhachandra
  2. Bodhchandra
  3. bodhi
  4. bodhi tree
  5. bodhi trees
  6. bodhicitta
  7. Bodhipathapradīpa
  8. bodhis
  9. bodhisat
  10. bodhisats
  11. bodhisattva

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bodhicitta (page history and authors); bodhicitta (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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