On the Conception of Bodhicitta in the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra (Läänemets 2008)

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On the Conception of Bodhicitta in the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra

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In the classical Mahāyāna thought the basic mental attitude of bodhisattvas bodhicitta ('mind of awakening')—is usually defined as consisting of two parts: praṇidhicitta ('mind of resolution') and prasthānacitta ('mind of progress'). In three classical and most revered works of later Mahāyāna-Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra and Śikṣāsamuccaya) and Kamalaśīla's Bhāvanākrama—almost identical definitions of the twofold nature of the bodhicitta are to be found. . . .

The Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra instead seems to be one of the most authoritative source in the discussion on the bodhicitta "theory" for the authors of later Mahāyāna. In the sutra itself, however, the very term bodhicitta occurs in very few occasions clearly having a secondary meaning while the main subject of discussion is the person's attitude towards and activity in a certain state of mind that is called anuttturā samyaksaṃbodhi ('supreme perfect awakening') . . . (Läänemets, 113–15)

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Läänemets, Märt. "On the Conception of Bodhicitta in the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra." In Body and Soul in the Conceptions of the Religions, edited by Manfried L. G. Dietrich und Tarmo Kulmar, 113–118. Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2008.

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Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra [बुद्धावतंसकनाममहावैपुल्यसूत्रात गण्डव्यूहसूत्रः पटलः]. sdong pos brgyan pa'i le'u [སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ]. [Chapter 45: The Gaṇḍhavyūha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Divākara, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajña, Sheng-chien. Kangyur, RKTSK 44-45 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.

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In this lengthy final chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, while the Buddha Śākyamuni is in meditation in Śrāvastī, Mañjuśrī leaves for South India, where he meets the young layman Sudhana and instructs him to go to a certain kalyāṇamitra or "good friend," who then directs Sudhana to another such friend. In this way, Sudhana successively meets and receives teachings from fifty male and female, child and adult, human and divine, and monastic and lay kalyāṇamitras, including night goddesses surrounding the Buddha and the Buddha’s wife and mother. The final three in the succession of kalyāṇamitras are the three bodhisattvas Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, and Samantabhadra. Samantabhadra’s recitation of the Samantabhadracaryāpraṇidhāna ("The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct") concludes the sūtra. (Source: 84000)