🗣️ The Origins of the Bodhisattva Bhumis (A free, 102-minute talk from 2010)

🗣️ The Origins of the Bodhisattva Bhumis (A free, 102-minute talk from 2010)
Those who regard worldly affairs as an obstacle to their training do not realize that there is nothing such as worldly affairs apart from the Way.
- #Dogen, ‘ #Shobogenzo,’ 5th May 1243, The Four Ways of a #Bodhisattva
Senator Mazie Hirono, woman of integrity 🪷☸️🙏🇺🇸 #Omerica2028loading #Buddhist #Hawaii #aloha #Bodhisattva
BDG Feature: Book Review: In Search of the Bodhisattva Way: The Child Sudhana’s Journey to Enlightenment from the Avatamsaka Sūtra
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#Buddhism #BookReview #BuddhistBooks #AvatamsakaSutra #Bodhisattva #Gandavyuha #JapaneseBuddhism
#Bodhisattva-literlly one whose essence is wisdom. In Southern #Buddhism an aspirant for #Buddhahoud. In Northern Buddhism one who renounces Nirvâna in order to help humanity.
- Geoffrey A. Baarbourka in Glossery of sanskrit terms page 20.
#Monju #Bodhisattva (of wisdom), accompanied by his four attendants, all dating to 1302 and enshrined in the main hall of Saidai-ji in Nara, #Japan.
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BDG Feature: Metta’s Testimony
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#Buddhism #Bodhisattva #Compassion #ChildTrafficking #Trauma #Survivors #Healing