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Keywords:
Nirvana,
Enlightened,
Sentient,
Buddhahood,
Mahayana
One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world.
One who has attained Enlightenment and is on the way to nirvana.
one who postpones his or her own enlightment in order to help liberate others from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, or a buddha who returns to work for sentient beings
(a Buddhist who has attained prajna, which is pure and unqualified knowledge; Enlightenment, who postpones nirvana)
one without ego, who works to liberate all sentient beings.
one who has taken the great vow to rescue all beings from suffering and guide them to enlightenment
(Sanskrit) An enlighted one who incarnates, refraining from entering nirvana, for the soul purpose to save others. Worshiped as a deity in Mahayana Buddhism.
a state of being deeply compassionate; also one who aspires to attain Buddhahood or enlightenment but postpones it to dedicate his or her life to saving others. One of the 10 worlds.
One who having attained enlightenment is on his way to Buddhahood and who has postponed his goal of Buddhahood to help other human beings attain their salvation
(S) a person who seeks enlightenment not only for him/herself, but for all living beings.
A being poised to become a Buddha, but who renounces its own salvation in order to help humankind.
Enlightened One, destined to become Buddha
A manifestation of a Buddha, or one who is cultivating the path to become a Buddha, whose life is guided by the aspiration to establish all beings in buddhahood, free from suffering.( Back to the top)( Back to the top)
(bod his SAT va) A spiritual guide in Buddhism. The bodhisattva is one who has reached enlightened understanding, and delays final enlightenment to help others along the spiritual path.
'enlightened being' either the historical Buddha before He became enlightened, or someone close to Buddhahood, or a mythical being representing aspects of enlightenment, or any person who has taken the Bodhisattva Vow.
A Buddhist saint who has taken a vow to lead all sentient beings to the ultimate goal of enlightenment. They have generated the altruistic mind of bodhicitta and are on the path to full enlightenment.
(Sanskrit, "a being of bodhi or enlightenment.") A being destined for enlightenment, or one whose energy and power is directed toward enlightenment. A Bodhisattva is destined to become a Buddha but has forgone the bliss of nirvana with a vow to save all children of God on earth. An ascended master or an unascended master may be a bodhisattva.
Many Buddhist believe they are enlightened beings that have delayed their entrance into nirvana in order to assist all sentient beings towards the same goal. In the visual arts, they are most often depicted as radiant, princely figures. Some carry specific symbolic objects associated with their function in the Buddhist tradition. The most popular bodhisattvas in Pure Land Buddhism are Kannon, Monju, and Jizo.
literally, wisdom-being, one on the way to enlightenment; an enlightened being (Buddha) who renounces Nirvana to aid all human beings to achieve enlightenment
A follower of Buddha associated with the Mahayana school of Buddhism who has attained enlightenment, but defers Nirvana and remains in the cycle of death and rebirth until, with his help, all reach Nirvana and its release from suffering.
A person who has generated spontaneous bodhichitta but who has not yet become a Buddha. From the moment a practitioner generates a non-artificial, or spontaneous, bodhichitta, he or she becomes a Bodhisattva and enters the first Mahayana path, the path of accumulation. An ordinary Bodhisattva is one who has not realized emptiness directly, and a Superior Bodhisattva is one who has attained a direct realization of emptiness.
Sentient being who has accumulated sufficient merit and virtue to achieve nirvana, but remains on earth to help others attain salvation. Bodhisattvas are models of virtue and strength and act as divine intercessors between the supreme Buddha and the lesser beings on earth.
(Tib. Byang chub sems dpa) a being who has decided to bring all beings to enlightenment and is practising the Bodhisattva path.
One who seeks to gain Enlightenment. Particularly one who seeks to gain Enlightenment not just for him/herself but for the sake of all sentient beings.
A being who has achieved awakening and has chosen to reincarnate so as to help alleviate the suffering of all beings. Generally thought of as waiting to achieve nirvana until all other beings have reached enlightenment. Kuan Yin is one of the most well-loved Bodhisattva. Buddha: Most commonly used in English to refer to Shakyamuni Buddha, who was born Prince Siddhartha.
One who possesses the essence of enlightenment” – a deified saviour figure, a fully enlightened being who remains in the world in order to release other creatures from suffering existence.
or bosatsu . A Buddhist intermediary who has forsaken nirvana to work for the salvation of all humanity.
Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others
a being compounded of the two contradictory forces of wisdom and compassion
a being (cosmic or human) who forgoes enlightenment until saving all others from the cycle of suffering, called samsara in Sanskrit
a being, divine or human, who, upon reaching the threshold of enlightenment, chooses instead to remain behind, enduring the endless cycles of life, death, and rebirth (samsara) in order to help all other beings achieve enlightenment
a being that devotes him or herself to compassionate deeds, striving to benefit all beings and seeking their Enlightenment before his or her own
a being that has attained illumination and that has sworn an oath to forgo crossing the gates of Nirvana to aid the creatures of this world
a being who has vowed to stick around and help all sentient beings achieve enlightenment
a being who is a potential Buddha
a being who is on the path of becoming a buddha and who is committed to helping other sentient beings reach enlightenment
a being who is ready for nirvana but whose compassion is so great that he or she remains on this earth solely in order to reduce suffering and help free others
a being who is seeking enlightenment so that, once awakened, he or she may efficiently aid other beings in seeking their enlightenment
a Buddhist term for one who has reached enlightenment, but chooses not to enter heaven, but to return again and again to help other humans find enlightenment
a friend of the world who, motivated by compassion, spontaneously seeks enlightenment to benefit all living beings
a human being who has advanced so far on the path of spiritual progress that he has attained enlightenment and reached the threshold of nirvana
a kind of divine saviour, whose role is to aid any being desirous of deliverance and Nirvana
an Awakened Being who cycles through rebirths to help free other beings from suffering and establish the true teachings (Dharma) in the world
an enlightened human who is on the threshold of Nirvana, and thus exalted from earthly life, but who chooses to postpone full entry into Nirvana in order to help others
an enlightened spirit
an ideal archetype for the contemporary spiritual activist
an individual who has achieved ultimate enlightenment, yet choose to remain in the mortal realm to help those who are still struggling with their mortal coil
an individual who has attained perfect enlightenment but delays entry into final nirva na in order to make possible the salvation of all other sentient beings
a person who achieves great spiritual enlightenment yet remains on earth to help others
a person who can enter nirvana at any time but chooses to stay in the world life time after life time so that he can bring everyone else to salvation
a person who forgoes the quest for nirvana in order to assuage the suffering of other beings
a person who has as his essence (sattva), bodhi (awakening)
a person who has attained enlightenment but chooses to forgo Nirvana and remain in the world to help others attain enlightenment
a person who has reached divine enlightenment and is entitled to enter Nirvana, but refuses, choosing instead to be reborn until all creatures have entered Nirvana
a person who, motivated by great compassion, has developed a spontaneous wish to attain enlightenment for the sake of all living beings
a person who practices Buddhism for the sake of others
a person who vows to become a Buddha by leading a life of virtue and wisdom
a practioner who has taken the vow to attain buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings
a saint who strives for perfection, or a person who relinquishes his own chance to enter Nirvana in order to help other achieve salvation
a sentient being who has already achieved enlightenment but chooses to stay in this mundane world to help others to relieve their sufferings
(Skt., = Tib. changchíub sempa). For the Early Schools and the Theravadins, the term bodhisattva refers primarily to the historical Buddha Shakyamuni in his previous lives. For the Mahayana schools, it has a wider meaning, and refers to (1) anyone who has irreversibly entered on the path to Buddhahood through arousing within himself or herself the central Mahayana motivation of BODHICITTA (q.v.); (2) certain highly-attained beings such as Avalokiteshvara or Manjushri who can be contacted in ritual for aid and who are, in effect, deities or sambhogakaya forms of the Buddha (see TRIKAYA DOCTRINE).
This Sanskrit name is given to anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhichitta, which is a spontaneous wish to realize his or her full potential, enlightenment, for the benefit of all living beings.
In Buddhist thought, one of the host of divinities who was provided to the Buddha to help him save humanity and who has postponed enlightenment in order to help others overcome suffering.
A Sanskrit term meaning "one whose essence is enlightenment," a being who is destined for enlightenment or who could become a Buddha, but who puts it off to help others.
(Sanskrit, "one whose essence is wisdom"). In Mahayana Buddhism, future buddhas who postpone nirvana in order to help free others from suffering. The goal of Mahayana Buddhism is to become a bodhisattva. See Bodhisattvas.
Buddha who continues to practice benefiting all beings.
A being in the final stages of attaining Buddhahood, who has vowed to help all sentient beings achieve Nirvana, or enlightenment, before he himself achieves it.
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