Where does “བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ” come from?
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སེམས, from Proto-Mon-Khmer səm.
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ (Tibetan): bodhisattva (derived from Sanskrit) One who vows to forgo and does forgo nirvana to work in samsara for the benefit of all sentient beings
Definitions
- bodhisattva (derived from Sanskrit) One who vows to forgo and does forgo nirvana to work in samsara for the benefit of all sentient beings
Ancestry of “བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ”, step by step
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan སེམས
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | སེམས | to think, to consider; to fancy, to imagine;... |
| 2 | Proto-Mon-Khmer | səm | — |
via Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | བྱང་ཆུབ | awakening, enlightenment, bodhi |
| 2 | Tibetan | བྱང | north; Short for བྱང་ཐང; past of འབྱང |
via Tibetan དཔའ་བོ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | དཔའ་བོ | heroic |