A fully enlightened being. Someone who has woken up from the sleep of ignorance (unawareness). Someone who has totally cleared away and eliminated, forever, from his or her mental continuum both the emotional obscurations and the cognitive obscurations and who has gained the full share of all good qualities by having evolved and built up over three zillion (countless) eons the two networks (collections): a network of positive force (merit) and a network of deep awareness (wisdom).
Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས། sangs-rgyas
Sanskrit: buddha
Pali: buddha
Synonyms: Awakened One; Clear Evolved One
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