The insight, wisdom, and assimilation of Truth essential to the attainment of the three higher stages of Arhatship. The seven successive factors which lead to Sambodhi are: mindfulness, investigation of the Dhamma, zeal, joy, tranquillity of mind,...

Enlightenment. The spiritual condition of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. The cause of Bodhi is Prajñā (q.v.) wisdom, and Karunā (q.v.) compassion. Bodhi is the name given to the highest state of Samādhi (q.v.) in which the mind is...

Bodhi (बोधि) is the Pāli and Sanskrit word for the "awakened" or "knowing" consciousness of a fully liberated yogi, generally translated into English as "enlightenment". It is an abstract noun formed from the verbal root budh (to awake, become...