Mike Gilmore

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Mike Gilmore

Mike Gilmore is best known for his editorial work on Commentary on the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, a key text in Tibetan Buddhism. This book, translated by Acharya Nyima Tsering and edited by Vyvyan Cayley and Mike Gilmore, was published by the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala in 1995. The text is a practical guide to the Bodhisattva path, offering insights into compassion, wisdom, and ethical living, making it a significant contribution to Buddhist literature.

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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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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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