Key Terms/Bhūmi
From Bodhicitta
भूमि bhūmi
developmental stage
ས་
sa
Sanskrit - Noun
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Basic Meaning
A plateau of spiritual development.
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Has the sense of
Generally associated with bodhisattvas, these are major stages arrived at over the course of lifetimes of ongoing spiritual practice and development.
In other languages
Tibetan
ས་
sa
Sanskrit
भूमि
bhūmi
Japanese
ji
How translators render it
levelRichard Barron, Jeffrey Hopkins, Sarah Harding, Gyurme Dorje, Ives Waldo
groundKarl Brunnhölzl, Sarah Harding
stageJeffrey Hopkins, Ives Waldo
developmental stageBuddha-nature Standard
spiritual levelRichard Barron
In the dictionaries
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
See page 116: In Sanskrit, lit. “ground”; deriving from an abhidharma denotation of bhūmi as a way or path (mārga), the term is used metaphorically to denote a “stage” of training, especially in the career of the bodhisattva or, in some contexts, a śrāvaka...
Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary
The levels or stages a bodhisattva traverses on the journey to complete enlightenment.
Tshig mdzod chen mo
sa lam gnyis kyi nang tshan du gyur pa'i sa ste/ rang gi 'bras bur gyur pa'i yon tan du ma'i gzhi rten byed pa'i lam zhugs kyi mngon rtogs te/ dman pa sa brgyad dang/ theg chen sa bcu lta bu'o/
