Alternative spellings of this word include Chittotpadika.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Cittotpādika (चित्तोत्पादिक) refers to the “(initial resolution to) strive for awakening”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, as the Lord said to Brahmā Prabhāvyūha: “(1) The root of good’ is the initial resolution to strive for awakening (prathama-cittotpādika), and the root of all qualities of the Buddha; ‘merit’ is, as soon as the thought of awakening is produced, to conquer all items of meritorious action consisting in generosity, morality, and meditational self-cultivation of all disciples and isolated Buddhas; ‘knowledge’ is to accumulate the root of good, and to transform the accumulations into omniscience [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Cittotpādika (चित्तोत्पादिक).—(-cittotpādika), adj. ifc. (to prec. with -ika; not re-corded in Pali), (one that is) characterized by production of intent, that has formed a resolution (used only of religious resolves): bodhi-cittot° Śikṣāsamuccaya 101.11, 13, that has formed the purpose of winning enlightenment; (eṣāṃ parvatānāṃ…) pārśve kecid ekacittotpādikā bodhisattvāḥ prativasanti Kāraṇḍavvūha 64.17 (so read), here apparently that have formed a single (? the One ? the first? as in the following) resolution; often in prathama-cittot°, always epithet of Bodhisattvas, that have formed the initial resolution (to enter on the course of a B.), Śikṣāsamuccaya 153.11; Kāśyapa Parivarta 29.4; Bodhisattvabhūmi 18.16; Gaṇḍavyūha 500.3; Kāraṇḍavvūha 85.20; 86.4.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Utpadika, Citta.

Ends with: Prathamacittotpadika.

Full-text: Utpadika, Prathamacittotpadika, Prathama.

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