Bodhisattva¶
A true Bodhisattva is one who has penetrated the Dharma of no-self.
— The Diamond Sutra, cited in Chanyuan Corpus · Becoming-Buddha Chapters
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| Friendly version | First-time readers | Who bodhisattvas are and what their qualities mean in practice |
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Overview¶
In the Lifechanyuan system, a "Bodhisattva" is a Celestial Being — a high-level life form who has completed cultivation and taken up residence in the Celestial Islands Continent of the Elysium World. Bodhisattva and "Celestial Being" (天仙) are used interchangeably. The Bodhisattva is rooted in no-form, has penetrated the law of no-self, and embodies eight defining qualities including the Mahayana vow and formless giving.
Lifechanyuan grounds its definition in the Diamond Sutra: a being with attachment to the self-mark, the person-mark, the sentient-being-mark, or the life-span-mark is not a Bodhisattva; only one who has truly penetrated no-self is called a true Bodhisattva by the Tathagata. In the cosmological map of 20 parallel worlds, Bodhisattvas inhabit the 14th world — the "Bodhisattva World" (X(-Y)Z dimension).