bodhisattva
ಬೋಧಿಸತ್ವನ
definition
noun
Realizing the intensity of suffering of all living beings in samsara, bodhisattvas have developed limitless compassion and love.
(in Mahayana Buddhism) a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings.
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This, the most important beam of the house, stretches across the upstairs reception hall, where women of the house daily worshipped the Buddhist 'bodhisattva' Guanyin.
Each word of the dharma is a 'bodhisattva' who is communicating to you.
It is in this type of Buddhism that the 'bodhisattva' emerges.
According to the 'bodhisattva' , the mahayana teachings are the real words of the Buddha.
Everyone who subscribes to the Mahayana technically becomes a 'bodhisattva' , but for most this is just the starting point of their long course of spiritual development.
To explain some further aspects of visualization meditation, we can go through the basic stages of a short practice of Avalokiteshvara, the 'bodhisattva' of compassion.
He went into a state of deep meditation and let the 'bodhisattva' of compassion, Avalokiteshvara, do the talking.
You are fulfilling the wishes of all the Buddhas and 'bodhisattvas' and of your own teachers.
All the Buddhas and 'bodhisattvas' attained realization through first developing bodhicitta within themselves.
It is limited and discriminatory, and it is not the compassion of the 'bodhisattvas' .
Realizing the intensity of suffering of all living beings in samsara, 'bodhisattvas' have developed limitless compassion and love.
They include prostrations, making offerings to statues of Buddhas or 'bodhisattvas' , attending public teachings and ceremonies.
But some enlightened beings, called 'bodhisattvas' , defer their nirvana, returning to human form to help others free themselves from the cycle.
To begin with, the Buddhas and 'bodhisattvas' , the embodiments of awakened compassion, were ordinary beings exactly like ourselves.
They are the living presence of all the various aspects of enlightenment - both its qualities and its activities - envisioned as male and female Buddhas, 'bodhisattvas' , protectors of dharma, and so on.
In the Buddhist tradition, 'bodhisattvas' aspire to enlightenment, dedicating their transformed minds and actions to the liberation of all beings.
Within some Mahayana Buddhist texts, for example, 'bodhisattvas' are described as having halos studded with 500 Buddhas, each attended by numberless gods.
In this case, the Buddha and the 'bodhisattvas' very skillfully condensed the teachings into a very concise form.
We invite all the Buddhas, 'bodhisattvas' , all the great teachers and the deceased to the dharma room and we chant so that everybody wakes up together.
The more we train in devotion to all enlightened masters, Buddhas and 'bodhisattvas' , the more our progress in recognizing mind essence will be enhanced.
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