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RE: The Ten Stages of the Mahayana Bodhisattva Path

is Mahayana Bodhisattva real i think no, I'm sure not just thinking there is much things can't Mahayana Bodhisattva explain it in this world but the only God can explain it.
by the way thank you for your efforts and for sharing this research

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Mahayana Buddhist started out of protest regarding the elite status that the arhats had developed. Arhats, the monks had stopped engaging the public who took care of them, providing them with food and monastaries. In the beginning the people who became enlightened hearing Buddha's words helped other people become enlightened and engage the public, teaching them how to let go of their negative conditioning. When Buddhism became an institution the monks starting isolating themselves and lost favor with those who supported them.

The Bodhisattva ideal was developed to combate this problem...