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

  1. 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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསེམསto think, to consider; to fancy, to imagine;...
2Proto-Mon-Khmersəm

via Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབྱང་ཆུབawakening, enlightenment, bodhi
2Tibetanབྱངnorth; Short for བྱང་ཐང; past of འབྱང

via Tibetan དཔའ་བོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདཔའ་བོheroic
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer səmEvery word from Tibetan སེམས