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Date	c. 100 CE
Description	The Stem Array Sūtra, which is part of the greater Multitude of Buddhas Sūtra, and many other Mahāyāna sūtras teaching bodhicitta begin to spread.
Description Tibetan	སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཡི་ཁོངས་གཏོགས་སྡོང་པོ་བཀོད་པའི་མདོ་ལ་སོགས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སྟོན་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པའི་མདོ་རྣམས་དར་འགོ་བཙུགས།
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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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