Explore/Training: Giving

This page will include a short introduction to the notion of giving as one of the main four components of the bodhisattva training expounded by Śāntideva in the Siks. The purpose of this page is to explain what giving is about in terms of meaning and purpose. Examples and quotes will be provided to illustrate this in a concrete way.

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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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