The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c23.27
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c23.27
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c23.27
The Bodhicitta, or the Will to Enlightenment, is that state of Mind which has already acquired the potentiality of dissolving itself in Śūnya. As a matter of fact, Śūnya or Nirvāṇa would be unattainable without the help of the Bodhicitta, which like Śūnya exists only in the mind. The Bodhi mind leads the aspiring soul into the very presence, so to speak, of Śūnya; it ultimately merges and loses itself completely in Śūnya.