enlightenment: "He who is awakened!" God Realization, Self Realization, Integrated Ascension, Samadhi, Resurrection, Liberation, Graduation. Moksha. Nirvana.

(byang chub) Usually seen as the same as the state of buddhahood but sometimes also the lower stages of enlightenment of an arhat or pratyekabuddha.

Complete enlightenment is a state of realization in which the most subtle traces of ignorance about the nature of reality are eliminated and highest wisdom - the state of omniscience - is attained; it is sometimes called "the embodiment of the Three Kayas".

The total purification of obscurations and ignorance, and the total expansion of wisdom to all levels of being.

Omniscient wisdom, free from all mistaken appearances. See the books Transform Your Life and Joyful Path Of Good Fortune.

realization of the truth of the way things are this is the end of rebirth.

This has been translated as understanding the ultimate reality and escaping the endless cycle of existence and rebirth. It is the point where perfect wisdom and perfect compassion reach balance.

education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

a liberation and a true cessation

Conventional English-language term for the state attained by a BUDDHA.

In Buddhism: wisdom, the understanding of the true nature of reality. To reach enlightenment is to have true compassion for others, which creates freedom from suffering.

Wisdom, the understanding of the true nature of reality, and compassion for others; the final release of the soul from the cycle of rebirth. Also known as Nirvana.

"Enlightenment" sometimes refers to the attainment of Buddhahood, as the "Enlightened One" means Buddha. If one is enlightened, one has a complete and perfect understanding of the reality character of everything.

although usually used to translate the Buddhist term Bodhi, Enlightenment is here used in the broader religious and spiritual understanding to refer to the attainment of a permanent state of higher wisdom, understanding, illumination, or self realisation. Enlightenment automatically confers liberation from lower consciousness ( avidya)

A blessed state in which the individual transcends desire and suffering and attains Nirvana

An awareness that one's life has the Buddha-nature within.

Generally means Supreme, Perfect Enlightenment, the enlightenment of the Buddhas. It is to see one's true nature and to comprehend reality perfectly.

awakening.

( Skt. bodhi / Tib. jangchup): The ultimate achievement of buddhahood, the state of realization in which the subtlest traces of ego and ignorance about the nature of reality are purified or eliminated.