[Buddha-l] bodhi

[Artur Karp]

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>What is the standard Polish translation of bodhi?
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>Richard Hayes

It's "oswiecenie",  an equivalent of the Latin "illuminatio". But "bodhi" 
can be also rendered as "przebudzenie", from "budzic" (Old-Slavonic *buditi 
) - "to awaken".

"Enlightenment" seems to carry the idea of some external (transcendental, 
whatever) agency providing light. Just as in "Dominus illuminatio mea" --- 
"The Lord is my enlightenment".

Artur Karp
University of Warsaw
Poland