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Bodhi
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what is the meaning of Bodhi? Bo Dhi?
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bodhi = awakened/ realised/enlightened
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then
what is Bodhi Tree?
what is Bodhi satva (satta)?
AND bodhi-sattva is "enlightenment being" or "being for enlighenment"but i think you know bodhisattva generally means nowadays "one who works for the enlightenment of other beings". but bodhisattva means "enlightenment being" because bodhisattvas aspire to become a buddha through the bodhisattva path dedicated entirely to others, to generate bodhi-citta (enlightenment/discriminating mind, loving mind). these are of course LANGUAGE ITEMS so they are perishable in their eternalness and erode in the river of time.
samma sam bodhi = Buddha = awaken to the Dhamma and teach Dhamma to others
pacceka bodhi = Pacceka Buddha = awaken to the Dhamma but unable to teach Dhamma to others
arahat bodhi = Araht = awaken to the Dhamma after leaning the Teaching of Dhamma
Bodhi Tree = the helping tree to become the Buddha (helping with providing shade and all other acceptable atmosphere)
Bodhi satva = the helping being to become the Buddha
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Bodhi-sattva - awakened being who walk to path to practice to awaken oneself and awakening for the others
but Lord Buddha (Buddha) was awakened the day of his enlightenment not before that
until then he was called Bodhi-sattva in his last birth as well as in his previous births after he got 'vivarana' from Deepankara Buddha
in that case,
Bodhi comes after a word (suffix) use for Already Awakened
Bodhi comes before a word (prefix) use for To Be Awakened
in any case Bodhi = awakened
Bodhisattva is differently used in Theravada and Mahayana. In Thera, it means the future Buddha. In Maha, it means as ansanna has stated, one who uses skillful means to help others reach enlightenment. Really in this way the Maha terminology can also apply to a Theravadin, but the Theravadin would not call themselves a Bodhisattva (Bodhisatta in Pali).
that is why i wanted to know the exact meaning of Bodhi
then i can decide for myself without leaning to theravada or mahayana
In Mahayana - the term Buddha-Bodhisattva is sometime used together ,
An advance Bodhisattva is already suppassed the enlightened stage of Arhat , and could be addressed as Buddha too , or interchange between Buddha and Bodhisattva.
In this respect, the Buddha represent the state of awakened to his true Buddha nature, the noble qualities of doing the salvation is represented by his Bodhisattvahood.
take example - Avalokitasvara ( Kanzeon ) was known as an ancient Buddha in the remote past, but took the form of Bodhisattva mission to come to the saha world to help the Buddha to turn the Dharma wheel / Salvation .
And in the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha revealed that his true cause to his original enlightenment was not the few years of meditation cultivation under the Bodhi tree in ancient Indian. But the fact that in his many past existences he had practiced the Bodhisattva paths that allow his to accumulated the huge merits for his full enlightenment. The awakened moment under the Bodhi tree in ancient India was just the moment of awaken to re-link back to his true identity as the ancient Buddha all along