n.
(Sanskrit and Pali: "awakening" or "enlightenment") In Buddhism , the final enlightenment that ends the cycle of death and rebirth and leads to nirvana .
This awakening transformed Siddhartha Gautama into the historical Buddha . Bodhi is achieved by ridding oneself of false beliefs and the hindrance of passions through the discipline of the Eightfold Path . Though not supported in canonical texts, commentaries give a threefold classification of bodhi: that of a perfectly enlightened one, or a Buddha; that of an independently enlightened one; and that of an arhat .