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
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 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
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term	bodhisattva [awakening being]; bodhisattva. bodhisattvas. a being on the path of enlightenment, bodhisattva. 'heroic being of enlightenment' bodhisattva. Someone who has developed bodhichitta, the aspiration to attain enlightenment in order to benefit all sentient beings. A practitioner of the Mahayana path; especially a noble bodhisattva who has attained the first level
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།།
RigpaWiki	Bodhisattva
Other Definitions	84000 Glossary-Definitions: A living being who has produced the spirit of enlightenment in himself and whose constant dedication, lifetime after lifetime, is to attain the unexcelled, perfect enlightenment of Buddhahood. A person who is dedicated not merely to attaining liberation through attaining the state of an arhat, but to becoming a buddha. A name created from the Sanskritization of the middle-Indic bodhisatto, the Sanskrit equivalent of which was bodhisakta, “one who is fixed on enlightenment.” Someone who practices according to the Vehicle of the Bodhisattvas; one who aims for complete buddhahood; “awakening hero;” “one who has a wish for awakening;” “one who awakens sentient beings.” A person who is dedicated not merely to gaining liberation through attaining the state of an arhat, but to becoming a buddha. A name created from the Sanskritization of the middle-Indic bodhisatto, the Sanskrit equivalent of which was bodhisakta, “one who is fixed on enlightenment.” A being who is dedicated to the cultivation and fulfilment of the altruistic intention to attain manifestly perfect buddhahood, traversing the five bodhisattva paths and ten bodhisattva levels. Bodhisattvas purposely opt to remain within cyclic existence in order to liberate all sentient beings, instead of simply seeking personal freedom from suffering. Philosophically, they realize the two aspects of selflessness, with respect to afflicted mental states and the nature of all phenomena. (See also note http: //read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-031-002.html#UT22084-031-002-142.) According to the Mahāyāna, an individual with the intent to achieve awakening for the sake of all beings.

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.

A person who has reached nirvāṇa by eliminating the three poisons of attachment, hatred and ignorance having followed the path of seeking individual liberation as a Śrāvaka or a Pratyekabuddha. An arhat, thus, is a person who has overcome the cause of rebirth in the cycle of existence and will not take an ordinary birth again.

The nonexistence of the self as a permanent, unchanging entity.