Buddahood

English

Etymology

Buddha +‎ -hood

Noun

Buddahood (uncountable)

1. (Buddhism) The state of being a buddha, enlightenment or nirvana.
   • 1878, Buddhism and Christianity Face to Face, page 62:

     But yet Gautama did all this, and this was the means he adopted to attain Buddahood.

   • 1986, Yoshiko Kurata Dykstra, The Konjaku Tales: From a Medieval Japanese Collection. Indian section:

     Unless he enters Buddahood, he will fall into the hells and suffer.

   • 1987, Religious Traditions - Volume 10, page 21:

     Whatever the contingent and occasional purpose of a ritual, its primary concern is always the attainment of Buddahood in the body by an immediate perception of the unobstructed interpenetration of all dharmas.

   • 1997, Gary David Comstock, Susan E. Henking, Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology, →ISBN, page 275:

     The Buddhist who bows before an image of the Buddha understands himself not as honoring an individual, but expressing his respect for Buddahood, a potentiality of all humans (or in some cases all beings) and devoting himself to the cultivaton of his own "enlightenment."

   • 2000, Brook Ziporyn, Evil And/or/as the Good, →ISBN:

     The eternity and omnipresence of the True Nature is equivalent to the omnipresence of the Mean; Buddahood or the dharma-nature is, crypto-pantheistically, present everywhere and in everything.

Alternative forms

• buddahood