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Date	c.1320 CE
Description	The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, composes several works on ultimate bodhicitta in the context of Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna systems.
Description Tibetan	ཀརྨ་པ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་གསུམ་པ་རང་བྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེས་དོན་དམ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་སྟོན་པའི་ཐེག་ཆེན་དང་གསང་སྔགས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་དུ་མ་མཛད།
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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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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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Vajrayāna - The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras. Skt वज्रयान  Tib རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།  Ch 金剛乘  

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