Human Development

Tenth scriptural bodhisattva awareness

Description:
This state of awareness is characterized by all-encompassing wisdom and power, and represented as the tenth bodhisattva stage realizing in the fully developed dharma body - [dharmakaya] - of the Buddha in utter understanding and virtue. All the buddhas have confirmed his [buddhahood] and, in [tusita] heaven, seated on a lotus, he is surrounded by the bodhisattvas.
Context:
According to Tibetan Gelugpa Buddhism, the tenth and final level on the path appropriate to those working for the salvation of all, leading to Buddhahood and the ultimate consciousness. In Tibetan Sakya Buddhism this is one of the states in the "Ascension Stages Game". In some sets it is numbered 94 on the board.<