buddahood

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Buddahood.

   Likewise, since sentient beings possess a buddha nature, the pursuit of buddahood is meaningful.

   2004, Padmasambhava, Light of Wisdom, Volume I, →ISBN, page 74

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   [They explain] that if there is no need to say that understanding things in this way is necessary for the attainment of buddahood, how much more so that it be a sine qua non for liberation from samsāra.

   1992, Mkhas-grub Dge-legs-dpal-bzaṅ-po, Jose Ignacio Cabezon, José Ignacio Cabezón, A Dose of Emptiness, →ISBN

   When I was born she named me Bodhi from the Buddhist idea of the Bodhisattva – a wise and compassionate being who delays his entrance into buddahood for the benefit of enlightenment for all.

   2014, Robert Beau Michaels, Elysian Fields, →ISBN

alternative buddahood

1. uncountableBuddhismThe state of being a buddha, enlightenment or nirvana.

   Unless he enters Buddahood, he will fall into the hells and suffer.

   1986, Yoshiko Kurata Dykstra, The Konjaku Tales: From a Medieval Japanese Collection. Indian section

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   But yet Gautama did all this, and this was the means he adopted to attain Buddahood.

   1878, Buddhism and Christianity Face to Face, page 62

   Whatever the contingent and occasional purpose of a ritual, its primary concern is always the attainment of Buddahood in the body by an immediate perception of the unobstructed interpenetration of all dharmas.

   1987, Religious Traditions - Volume 10, page 21

   The Buddhist who bows before an image of the Buddha understands himself not as honoring an individual, but expressing his respect for Buddahood, a potentiality of all humans (or in some cases all beings) and devoting himself to the cultivaton of his own "enlightenment."

   1997, Gary David Comstock, Susan E. Henking, Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology, →ISBN, page 275

   The eternity and omnipresence of the True Nature is equivalent to the omnipresence of the Mean; Buddahood or the dharma-nature is, crypto-pantheistically, present everywhere and in everything.

   2000, Brook Ziporyn, Evil And/or/as the Good, →ISBN