{"id":18271,"date":"2023-12-17T01:45:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T20:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18271"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:22:03","slug":"bodhicitta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bodhicitta\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodhicitta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Bodhicitta<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bodhicitta, translated as \u201cawakening mind\u201d or \u201cthought of enlightenment,\u201d is the commitment to embark on a path of awakening and\u00a0be a bodhisattva, one dedicated to the liberation of all beings.<\/li>\n<li>Bodhicitta is\u00a0born of compassion, the desire to free all beings from suffering, even those who wish us harm or consider us enemies.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the\u00a0foundations of the Mahayana tradition, bodhicitta is woven into many of its teachings.<\/li>\n<li>It is central to the bodhisattva vow, a commitment common to many Mahayana Buddhist traditions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0two aspects.\n<ul>\n<li>The main part is the\u00a0compassionate mind that naturally and spontaneously wants to relieve the suffering of all fellow living beings without exception \u2013 a pure good heart.<\/li>\n<li>The second aspect\u00a0is realising that to help others, we need to awaken our own natural purity of mind and attain enlightenment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Bodhisattva?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a key idea\u00a0in Buddhism.<\/li>\n<li>The word is constructed from the Sanskrit root bodhi, meaning \u201cawakening\u201d or \u201cenlightenment\u201d, and sattva, meaning \u201cbeing\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The core meaning of the word is \u201ca being who is on the way to becoming enlightened\u201d.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Sed-Gyued Monastery<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in Siliguri,\u00a0West Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>It is the main seat of the\u00a0Sed-Gyued Lineage or Whispered Lineage.<\/li>\n<li>Whispered lineage is a secret teaching transmitted only to the closest disciple through direct communication with their root teacher or meditational deity.<\/li>\n<li>It is because of the unbroken secret teachings of Sed-Gyued lineage and commentaries that the Tibetan secret Mahayana practice is intact today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Theravada Buddhism?<\/h3>\n<p>Theravada, the &#8220;Doctrine of the Elders,&#8221; is the name for the school of Buddhism that draws its scriptural inspiration from the Pali Canon, or Tipitaka, which scholars generally accept as the oldest record of the Buddha&#8217;s teachings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/dalai-lama-arrives-at-siliguris-sed-gyued-monastery-to-deliver-teachings-to-his-devotees\/article67636983.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Dalai Lama arrives at Siliguri&#8217;s Sed-Gyued Monastery to deliver teachings to his devotees<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodhicitta is born of compassion, the desire to free all beings from suffering, even those who wish us harm or consider us enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}