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Over at Elephant Journal, editor Waylon Lewis has engaged his mom and longtime Buddhist practitioner Linda Lewis to teach weekly on those great ‘lojong’ (mind training) slogans of the 10th century Mahayanist, Atisha.
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But, if we do have a bodhichitta aim, then even if we have no other qualities, we can be considered a spiritual child of the Buddhas, a Mahayanist having a vast vehicle of mind.
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The actual distinguishing factor for being a Mahayanist, then, is whether we have a bodhichitta aim.
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The Mahayanist ideal is the bodhisattva, a person who forgoes nirvana and vows to become a Buddha in order to save others.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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The Mahayanist ideal is the bodhisattva, a person who forgoes nirvana and vows to become a Buddha in order to save others.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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The Mahayanist ideal is the bodhisattva, a person who forgoes nirvana and vows to become a Buddha in order to save others.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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And yet you made it your affair by inanely referred to “the Pali canon and umpteen Mahayanist sutras” when the discussion of Buddhism here, to the degree there was any, was about Buddhism of the Ken Wilbur variety.
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You can look it up in the Pali canon and umpteen Mahayanist sutras.
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We say we are Mahayanists, but as Tsongkhapa has said, we need to have a Mahayana personality in order to be considered a Mahayanist.
A Short Commentary on Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices ��� Day Three Thogs-med bzang-po 2006
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Literary taste survived the Gupta Empire: witness Sudraka's drama Mrichchakatika (Little Clay Cart) and Dandin's romance Dasakumaracharita (both 6th century) and Santideva's brilliant poem of Mahayanist altruism, Bodhicharyavatara (late 7th century).
477-495+ 2001
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