Bodhisattva

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Sanskrit Noun

Bodhisattva

Bodhisattva
बोधिसत्त्व
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།
菩薩

Basic Meaning

A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.

Term Variations
Key Term Bodhisattva
Topic Variation Bodhisattva
Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  ( jangchub sempa)
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration byang chub sems dpa'  ( jangchub sempa)
Devanagari Sanskrit बोधिसत्त्व  ( bodhisattva)
Romanized Sanskrit bodhisattva  ( bodhisattva)
Chinese 菩薩
Chinese Pinyin pú sà
Japanese 菩薩
Japanese Transliteration bosatsu
Korean 보살
Korean Transliteration bosal
Buddha-nature Site Standard English Bodhisattva
Term Information
Source Language Sanskrit
Basic Meaning A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.
Term Type Noun
Definitions
Tshig mdzod Chen mo ཐེག་ཆེན་སློབ་ལམ་པའི་གང་ཟག་སྟེ། བྱང་ཆུབ་ཆེན་པོ་ཐོབ་ཆེད་བསྐལ་པའི་ཡུན་དང་། འགྲོ་མང་གི་མཐའ། དབུ་དང་ཡན་ལག་གི་སྦྱིན་པ་གཏོང་བ་ལ་སེམས་མི་ཞུམ་པས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཞེས་བྱའོ།།
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