Icchantika

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Key Term	icchantika
In Tibetan Script	འདོད་ཆེན་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	'dod chen
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	इच्छन्तिक
Romanized Sanskrit	icchantika
Sanskrit Phonetic Rendering	ichantika
Chinese Script	一闡提
Chinese Pinyin	yī chǎn tí
Japanese Transliteration	issendai
Dan Martin's English Term	Those who are incapable of entering the Path.
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Definitions
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism	See page 370: In Sanskrit, “incorrigibles”; a term used in the Mahāyāna tradition to refer to a class of beings who have lost all potential to achieve enlightenment or buddhahood. The term seems to derive from the present participle icchant (desiring), and may be rendered loosely into English as something like “hedonist” or “dissipated” (denotations suggested in the Tibetan rendering 'dod chen (po), “subject to great desire”). (The Sinographs are simply a transcription of the Sanskrit.)

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.