Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c9.s3.4
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c9.s3.4
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c9.s3.4
bodhicitta, just as some persons can escape punishments by being protected by powerful persons. It is only the ignorant who do not take to such an excellent refuge, the bodhicitta ¹. The Mahāyāna texts are replete with references to the excellences of the bodhicitta, a topic with which the early Hinayānists had no concern. By bodhicitta the Mahāyānists mean the forming of a resolution to attain bodhi and save every being of the world from misery by leading him to Nirvāṇa or Bodhi.