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Definition of bodhisattva in English:

bodhisattva

nounˌbɒdɪˈsɑːtvə-ˈsət-
  • (in Mahayana Buddhism) a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so through compassion for suffering beings.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We invite all the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, all the great teachers and the deceased to the dharma room and we chant so that everybody wakes up together.
    • He went into a state of deep meditation and let the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara, do the talking.
    • Within some Mahayana Buddhist texts, for example, bodhisattvas are described as having halos studded with 500 Buddhas, each attended by numberless gods.
    • All the Buddhas and bodhisattvas attained realization through first developing bodhicitta within themselves.
    • According to the bodhisattva, the mahayana teachings are the real words of the Buddha.
    • It is limited and discriminatory, and it is not the compassion of the bodhisattvas.
    • Realizing the intensity of suffering of all living beings in samsara, bodhisattvas have developed limitless compassion and love.
    • But some enlightened beings, called bodhisattvas, defer their nirvana, returning to human form to help others free themselves from the cycle.
    • This, the most important beam of the house, stretches across the upstairs reception hall, where women of the house daily worshipped the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin.
    • Each word of the dharma is a bodhisattva who is communicating to you.
    • In the Buddhist tradition, bodhisattvas aspire to enlightenment, dedicating their transformed minds and actions to the liberation of all beings.
    • They include prostrations, making offerings to statues of Buddhas or bodhisattvas, attending public teachings and ceremonies.
    • To begin with, the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, the embodiments of awakened compassion, were ordinary beings exactly like ourselves.
    • You are fulfilling the wishes of all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and of your own teachers.
    • It is in this type of Buddhism that the bodhisattva emerges.
    • They are the living presence of all the various aspects of enlightenment - both its qualities and its activities - envisioned as male and female Buddhas, bodhisattvas, protectors of dharma, and so on.
    • The more we train in devotion to all enlightened masters, Buddhas and bodhisattvas, the more our progress in recognizing mind essence will be enhanced.
    • To explain some further aspects of visualization meditation, we can go through the basic stages of a short practice of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.
    • Everyone who subscribes to the Mahayana technically becomes a bodhisattva, but for most this is just the starting point of their long course of spiritual development.
    • In this case, the Buddha and the bodhisattvas very skillfully condensed the teachings into a very concise form.

Origin

Sanskrit, 'a person whose essence is perfect knowledge', from bodhi 'perfect knowledge' (from budh- 'know perfectly') + sattva 'being, essence'.

 
 

Definition of bodhisattva in US English:

bodhisattva

(also Bodhisattva)
noun-ˈsət-
  • (in Mahayana Buddhism) a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Everyone who subscribes to the Mahayana technically becomes a bodhisattva, but for most this is just the starting point of their long course of spiritual development.
    • Within some Mahayana Buddhist texts, for example, bodhisattvas are described as having halos studded with 500 Buddhas, each attended by numberless gods.
    • It is limited and discriminatory, and it is not the compassion of the bodhisattvas.
    • To begin with, the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, the embodiments of awakened compassion, were ordinary beings exactly like ourselves.
    • According to the bodhisattva, the mahayana teachings are the real words of the Buddha.
    • The more we train in devotion to all enlightened masters, Buddhas and bodhisattvas, the more our progress in recognizing mind essence will be enhanced.
    • They include prostrations, making offerings to statues of Buddhas or bodhisattvas, attending public teachings and ceremonies.
    • To explain some further aspects of visualization meditation, we can go through the basic stages of a short practice of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.
    • This, the most important beam of the house, stretches across the upstairs reception hall, where women of the house daily worshipped the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin.
    • It is in this type of Buddhism that the bodhisattva emerges.
    • In this case, the Buddha and the bodhisattvas very skillfully condensed the teachings into a very concise form.
    • They are the living presence of all the various aspects of enlightenment - both its qualities and its activities - envisioned as male and female Buddhas, bodhisattvas, protectors of dharma, and so on.
    • All the Buddhas and bodhisattvas attained realization through first developing bodhicitta within themselves.
    • Each word of the dharma is a bodhisattva who is communicating to you.
    • You are fulfilling the wishes of all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and of your own teachers.
    • We invite all the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, all the great teachers and the deceased to the dharma room and we chant so that everybody wakes up together.
    • In the Buddhist tradition, bodhisattvas aspire to enlightenment, dedicating their transformed minds and actions to the liberation of all beings.
    • But some enlightened beings, called bodhisattvas, defer their nirvana, returning to human form to help others free themselves from the cycle.
    • He went into a state of deep meditation and let the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara, do the talking.
    • Realizing the intensity of suffering of all living beings in samsara, bodhisattvas have developed limitless compassion and love.

Origin

Sanskrit, ‘a person whose essence is perfect knowledge’, from bodhi ‘perfect knowledge’ (from budh- ‘know perfectly’) + sattva ‘being, essence’.

 
 
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