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Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi

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Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi (Pali): Sanskrit word meaning 'unexcelled complete Enlightenment,' which is an attribute of every Buddha. Supreme perfect Enlightenment. It is the highest, correct, and complete or universal Knowledge or awareness, the perfect Wisdom of a Buddha.

anuttara-samyak-saṁbodhi (阿耨多羅三藐三菩提). The unsurpassed, equally perfect enlightenment (無上正等正覺). Anuttara means unsurpassed; samyak is derived from the stem samyañc, which means same or identical; saṁbodhi means perfect enlightenment. Equally means that the perfect enlightenment of all Buddhas is the same. The third epithet of a Buddha is Samyak-Saṁbuddha, the Equally, Perfectly Enlightened One.

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