Saṃvṛtibodhicitta
Basic Meaning
Relative bodhicitta is the aspirational wish to attain the fully-enlightened state of a buddha. It aspires both to alleviate the suffering of all beings, and therefore to attain buddhahood in order to spontaneously and effortlessly act for the welfare of all beings
Has the Sense of
the conventional mind of enlightenment that wishes to attain the enlightened state to be of spontaneous benefit for all beings
| Term Variations | |
| Key Term | Saṃvṛtibodhicitta |
|---|---|
| Topic Variation | saṃvṛtibodhicitta |
| Tibetan | ཀུན་རྫོབ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ ( kündzop changchup kyi sem) |
| Wylie Transliteration | kun rdzob byang chub kyi sems ( kündzop changchup kyi sem) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | संवृतिबोधित्त |
| Romanized Sanskrit | saṃvṛtibodhicitta |
| Chinese | 世俗菩提心 |
| Chinese Pinyin | shìsú pútíxīn |
| Japanese Transliteration | sezoku bodaishin |
| Korean | sesok borisim |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | relative bodhicitta |
| Alternate Spellings | saṃvṛttibodhicitta, relative bodhicitta, kun rdzob sems bskyed |
| Term Information | |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | Relative bodhicitta is the aspirational wish to attain the fully-enlightened state of a buddha. It aspires both to alleviate the suffering of all beings, and therefore to attain buddhahood in order to spontaneously and effortlessly act for the welfare of all beings |
| Has the Sense of | the conventional mind of enlightenment that wishes to attain the enlightened state to be of spontaneous benefit for all beings |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Definitions | |
| Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism | saṃvṛtibodhicitta. (T. kun rdzob byang chub kyi sems).
"In Sanskrit, 'conventional (or relative) aspiration to enlightenment.' In Indian MAHĀYĀNA scholastic literature, this term is contrasted with the 'ultimate aspiration to enlightenment' (PARAMĀRTHABODHICITTA). The term saṃvṛtibodhicitta is used to refer to BODHICITTA in its more common usage, as the aspiration to achieve buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings. It is the generation of this aspiration for enlightenment (BODHICITTOTPĀDA) that marks the beginning of the bodhisattva path and the Mahāyāna path of accumulation (SAṂBHĀRAMĀRGA). The ultimate aspiration or mind of enlightenment refers to the bodhisattva’s direct realization of the ultimate truth (PARAMĀRTHASATYA). In the case of the MADHYAMAKA school’s interpretation, this would be the direct realization of emptiness (ŚŪNYATĀ)". |
| Tshig mdzod Chen mo | རགས་པ་བརྡ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ཀུན། |
| Dung dkar Tshig mdzod Chen mo | བདག་གཞན་མཉམ་བརྗེའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ལ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ལྟ་བས་མ་ཟིན་པ་ལ་ཟེར། ཞིབ་པར་ཕར་ཕྱིན་སྐབས་དང་པོའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ཀྱི་སྐབས་སུ་གསལ། |
