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Date	c. 300 CE
Description	Maitreya composes The Ornament of Direct Realisation, which presents the famous definition of bodhicitta: "Cittotpāda is the wish to attain the perfect full enlightenment for the sake of others," and The Ornament of Mahāyāna Sūtras, both of which present the relative bodhicitta. He also composed The Ultimate Continuum of Mahāyāna which expounded the ultimate bodhicitta.
Description Tibetan	རྒྱལ་ཚབ་བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོས་ "སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པ་ནི་གཞན་དོན་ཕྱིར། །ཡང་དག་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་འདོད། །" ཞེས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད་བསྟན་པའི་གཞུང་མངོན་པར་རྟོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་དང་། ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མདོ་སྡེ་རྒྱན་མཛད་ནས་ཀུན་རྫོབ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དང་། ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་མཛད་ནས་དོན་དམ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དར་སྤེལ་བྱུང་།
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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 the 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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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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