Bodhisattva

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Key Term	Bodhisattva
Hover Popup Choices	Bodhisattva; byang chub sems dpa'; jangchub sempa
In Tibetan Script	བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	byang chub sems dpa'
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	बोधिसत्त्व
Romanized Sanskrit	bodhisattva
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	jangchub sempa
Sanskrit Phonetic Rendering	bodhisattva
Chinese Script	菩薩
Chinese Pinyin	pú sà
Japanese Script	菩薩
Japanese Transliteration	bosatsu
Korean Script	보살
Korean Transliteration	bosal
English Standard	Bodhisattva
Term Type	Noun
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 the those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.
Has the Sense of	The term Bodhisattva rendered into Tibetan as བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ (wyl. byang chub sems dpa') has the sense of heroic beings who have developed the thought of enlightenment or awakening. Thus, a Bodhisattva is defined as a person who has given rise to Bodhicitta or the thought of enlightenment.
Definitions

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.

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.

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.

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.