Robert Thurman: The Bodhisattva Ideal and the Inconceivable Buddha-World

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The Bodhisattva Ideal and the Inconceivable Buddha-World

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Robert A.F. Thurman, the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, leads an exploration into the history and philosophy of Buddhism throughout India, South and Southeast Asia, Tibet, and Central Asia, featuring the basics of the Buddhist view of reality and its educational principles of sciences, mind and social ethics.

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Thurman, Robert. "The Bodhisattva Ideal and the Inconceivable Buddha-World." Produced by the Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning Jun 24, 2019. Video, 8:40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-qvIA9xrk.

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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