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State the definition of the Mahayana conventional generated mind. What are its boundaries?
What are the body and mind supports of Mahayana conventional generated mind?
List any five of the causes of Mahayana conventional generated mind that have been explained in the Indian treatises.
Santideva’s Compendium of Trainings (Siksasamuccaya) explains the four modes of
generating the mind [of enlightenment]:
What is the necessary motivation for the fully qualified principal generated mind that is explicitly
indicated in the 1st chapter ?
Explain the difference between wishing bodhicitta and engaging bodhicitta.
wishing bodhicitta and engaging bodhicitta - What are their respective boundaries?
The Mahayana conventional generated mind is designated by the name “desire for others’ welfare” and also by the name “desire for enlightenment.” Explain each of these designations in terms of its three attributes.
What is the meaning of this verse from Bodhisattvacaryavatara:
"As is understood by the particularities
Of desiring to go and going,
So the wise should understand respectively
The particularities of these two."
What is the meaning of a generated mind being actually conjoined with the activity of the practice of deeds?
What are the benefits of bodhicitta?
Which of the two mind-generations are present in the continuum of a bodhisattva in meditative equipoise?
What is the relationship between wishing and engaging bodhicitta?
What are the boundaries of:
Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta?
Which of the two bodhicittas exists during a
bodhisattva’s subsequent attainment?
Which of the 2 bodhicittas is manifest during a bodhisattva’s meditative equipoise?
Which of the 2 bodhicittas is manifest during a bodhisattva’s subsequent attainment ?
Can a person who does not possess engaging vows in his/her continuum generate engaging bodhicitta?
What is the difference between the conventional and the ultimate mind of enlightenment?
What is the meaning of these 2 lines of the root text:
"The generated mind is desire for/
Perfect complete enlightenment for others’ welfare."
The Mahayana conventional generated mind is designated by the name “desire for others’ welfare”. Explain this designation in terms of its three attributes.
The Mahayana conventional generated mind is designated by the name “desire for for enlightenment.” Explain this designation in terms of its three attributes.
Explain the meaning of: "That and that are, just as in the Sutra, /
Expressed briefly and extensively".
What is the meaning of “distinguished by abiding in a class of paths that serves as the door of entry into Mahayana paths”?
Can beings in a formless realm generate bodhicitta?
What methods are there for generating bodhicitta?
Which of the two, wishing bodhicitta and engaging
bodhicitta, is the bodhicitta in the continuum of a
bodhisattva giving some food to a beggar?
Explain how the 2 observed objects of bodhicitta are indicated briefly and extensively by means of method in the middle sutra.
What is the substantial cause of bodhicitta?