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Date	c. 800 CE
Description	Numerous Mahāyāna sūtras, tantras, and commentarial treatise teaching bodhicitta including The Way of the Bodhisattva, The Compendium of Training, The Stages of Bodhisattva, The Ornament of Mahāyāsutras, and The Stages of Meditation, were translated into Tibetan by translator such as Kawa Peltsek and Yeshe De, making the Nyingma school of early translation to flourish.
Description Tibetan	ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཀ་བ་དཔལ་བརྩེགས་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ་ལ་སོགས་པས། བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་སྟོན་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་རྒྱུད་དང་བསྟན་བཅོས་ བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་དང་། བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས། ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མདོ་སྡེ་རྒྱན། བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ་ལ་སོགས་པ་མང་དུ་འགྱུར་ནས་སྔ་འགྱུར་རྙིང་མའི་བསྟན་པ་དར་རྒྱས་མཛད།
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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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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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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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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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Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib རྙིང་མ་  

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