Bodhipraṇidhicitta

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Key Term	bodhipraṇidhicitta
Hover Popup Choices	aspiration bodhicitta; bodhipraṇidhicitta
In Tibetan Script	བྱང་ཆུབ་སྨོན་པའི་སེམས་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	byang chub smon pa'i sems
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	प्रणिधिचित्त
Romanized Sanskrit	bodhipraṇidhicitta
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	jangchub mönpai sem
English Standard	aspiration bodhicitta
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	attitude of aspiration; wishing mind; aspirational mind
Ives Waldo's English Term	mind of aspiration
Alternate Spellings	smon sems
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	The aspirational mind that aspires to attain enlightenment for the welfare of all beings
Has the Sense of	One of the subdivisions of relative bodhicitta, this is the mind that aspires to attain enlightenment for the sake of all other sentient beings. Specifically, here, it is at the level of aspiration, so it is the mere wish that we attain enlightenment in order to most effectively be able to help all other beings. In verse 16 of the first chapter of The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra), Śāntideva introduces a crucial division of the relative bodhicitta into two types: aspiring bodhicitta and engaged bodhicitta. Śāntideva uses a simple analogy to distinguish this difference: As corresponding to the wish to go And then to setting out, The wise should understand respectively The difference that divides these two. In this analogy of a journey, aspiring bodhicitta is the mind that wishes to set out on the path but has not yet begun to actually walk it.
Related Terms	bodhiprasthānacitta