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# 勸發菩提心集 3.26

勸發菩提心集 3.26

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [3.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.3.26)

言菩薩者，信是身中實有菩薩種姓，堪受菩薩淨戒，名為菩薩，非已有證名為菩薩。

> Calling them 'bodhisattva' means having faith that within this body there truly exists the bodhisattva gotra, being capable of receiving the pure precepts of a bodhisattva, and thus being named a 'bodhisattva'; it does not mean being named a 'bodhisattva' because of already having realizations.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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