The History of Buddhist Thought c26.52

c26.52

This is the state attained by the bodhisattva when he reaches omniscience. The attaining of it is no mere theoretical study of the doctrine of the Void or of mind-only. It involves the practice of the career of the bodhisattva pursued for countless ages through higher and higher stages, with the perfect attainment of the six virtues and the acquiring of omniscience in every possible form (*sarvākārajñatā*), such as we have seen in the sūtras that describe the career. This state is buddhahood, “the dharma-body of the great Sage.” The bodhisattva becomes not merely a Buddha, but Buddha, the ultimate undifferentiated reality, suchness.