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.
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