Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c5.s2.t13.33
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c5.s2.t13.33
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c5.s2.t13.33
(ii) the Bodhisattva conception, *viz.*, that the Bodhisattvas are not born and do not grow in the womb in the same way as an ordinary being, are not defiled by the impurities of the womb,³ enter the womb in full consciousness,⁴ never harbour any feeling of kāma (lust),⁵ hatred or injury, and take birth in hina-gatis (lower forms of existences) for the benefit of the various classes of sentient beings, and so forth.⁶