Icchantika
| 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.) |