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n. The state of being spiritually enlightened by the Buddhist teachings.
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In Buddhism, buddhahood ( , or ) is the condition or rank of a buddha ( or , , Pali/ Sanskrit for "awakened one").
The goal of Mahayana's Bodhisattva path is Samyaksambuddhahood, so that one may benefit all sentient beings by teaching them the path of cessation of dukkha. This contrasts with the goal of Hinayana path, where the goal is Arhatship.
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Mahayana was accompanied both by a tendency to regard the Buddha as a transcendent, rather than earthly, being and by adulation for the bodhisattva, or buddha-to-be, who would assist others on the path to buddhahood.
During the same reign a controversy developed between Chinese Buddhist adherents of the rapid path of Buddhahood and Indian defenders of the classical Mahayana or bodhisattva progression by stages.
We have to attain to Buddhi, which is wisdom, before we can pass on to Buddhahood which is wisdom and knowledge.
Understanding occurs in a mystical fusion between worshipper and sutra, and thus we shall attain nirvana and Buddhahood.
These heavenly audiences included bodhisattvas, beings who had taken the vow, as had the historical Buddha in a distant and earlier life, to strive for buddhahood.
India into Tibet was based on the emanative character of buddhahood which provided a group of transcendent Buddhas between the phenomenal world and the principle of buddhahood as the Absolute, which was equated either with the principle of voidness or of universal consciousness.
The transition from the early iconography of the monastic Buddha to an ornamented and crowned figure is probably to be connected with the evolution of the doctrine of the Three Bodies which distinguished from the so-called historical Buddha the Buddhas of Meditation who in turn were manifestations of Buddhahood in its absolute form.
A kind of wand, terminating at both ends in converging prongs, it represented the indestructible diamond, the Absolute, voidness and the other terms for the essence Buddhahood.
Meditation is one of the six ways through which Buddhahood may be reached, and the Zen sectarians affirm that Sakyamuni laid special stress on this method in his later teachings, handing down the rules to his chief disciple Kashiapa.
Following her attainment of bodhicitta, the goddess Tara looked upon those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few women who attained Buddhahood.
The stupa also became one of the three supports or receptacles for the threefold division of the sacred into mind, word and body, for Buddhahood was equated with mind.