Bodhisattva is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BODHISATTVA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who gives up Nirvana out of compassion for others, also BODDHISATTVA
• (in Mahayana Buddhism) a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so through compassion for suffering beings.
• Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others
• one who gives up Nirvana out of compassion for others
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a being that compassionately refrains from entering nirvana in order to save others and is worshipped as a deity in Mahayana Buddhism

Words related to BODHISATTVA

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Words that contain BODHISATTVA

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How to use BODHISATTVA in a sentence

• Going on further for two days to the east, they came to the place where the Bodhisattva threw down his body to feed a starving tigress.
• On the four sides are niches, with a Buddha seated in each, and a Bodhisattva standing in attendance on him.
• Going on again to the south for twenty li, they arrived at the place where the Bodhisattva for six years practised with himself painful austerities.
• As they thus went away, the Bodhisattva arose and walked after them.
• The Bodhisattva went forward to the patra tree, placed the kusa grass at the foot of it, and sat down with his face to the east.
• The Bodhisattva put his toes down on the ground, and the demon soldiers retired and dispersed, and the three young ladies were changed into old grandmothers.
• But though the Pali Canon thus recognizes the Bodhisattva as a type which, if rare, yet makes its appearance at certain intervals, it leaves the matter there.
• No certain connection has been traced between the former and the Bodhisattva but in the seventh century the latter was regarded as his abode.
• Mahayanist ideas may easily have entered these countries from China, but even in Ceylon the idea of becoming a Buddha or Bodhisattva is not unknown.
• And why? Because no one is to be called a Bodhisattva for whom there exists the idea of a being, or person.
• This second part contains spells and many mythological narratives, including one of an ancient Bodhisattva who burnt himself alive in honour of a former Buddha.
• This is precisely the attitude of the Bodhisattva who avoids the inaction of those who are engrossed in self-culture as much as the pursuit of wealth or pleasure.
• Asanga was alleged to have received revelations from Maitreya and five of his works are attributed to this Bodhisattva who enjoyed considerable honour at this period.
• In this way he imagines that he sees the emblems of the Bodhisattva spring up round him one by one and finally he himself assumes the shape of Avalokita and becomes one with him.
• Here we have if not the borrowing by Buddhists of a Saiva deity, at least the grafting of Saiva conceptions on a Bodhisattva.
• Then the sâdhaka fills this void with the image of some Bodhisattva, for instance Avalokita.
• It describes the career of a Bodhisattva and hence parts of it are treated as belonging to the Vinaya.
• But frequently the hereditary soul is identified with a Buddha or Bodhisattva, as in the great incarnations of Lhasa and Tashilhunpo.
• Pieh, or distinction, is applicable only to the Mahayana and means the special excellences of a Bodhisattva.
• Then the precious Mountain-râga, Sumeru, firmly holding this great earth when Bodhisattva appeared in the world, was swayed by the wind of his perfected merit.
• Just as when a country visited by desolation, suddenly obtains an enlightened ruler, so when Bodhisattva was born, he came to remove the sorrows of all living things.
• Bodhisattva, answering as he was moved, in his turn made similar inquiries.
• Bodhisattva taking it, partook of it at once, whilst she received, even then, the fruits of her religious act.
• These are the signs that Bodhisattva will certainly attain enlightenment.
• Bodhisattva regarded not the arrow, nor considered aught the women three.
• Thus all these countless sorts of creatures, wishing to destroy the Bodhisattva, unable to remove him from the spot, were with their own weapons wounded.
• Fire may freeze, water may burn, the roughened earth may grow soft and pliant, but ye cannot hurt the Bodhisattva! Through ages past disciplined by suffering.
• The mind of Bodhisattva now reposed peaceful and quiet.
• The Bodhisattva, that is the Buddha to-be, resides in the Tusita Heaven and selects his birth-place and parentage.
• The germs of the Mahayana may be detected in the opinions of some sects on the nature of the Buddha and the career of a Bodhisattva.
• The object of these biographies is less to give information about previous Buddhas than to trace the career of Gotama as a Bodhisattva.
• Ojin, the god of war, became Hachiman Dai Bosatsu, or the great Bodhisattva of the Eight Banners.
• For each of the thirty days of the month, a Bodhisattva, or in Japanese pronunciation Bosatsu, was appointed.
• The fifth text of 100,000 verses, was obtained by a Bodhisattva from the palace of the dragon king of the world under the sea and transmitted to men in India.
• One of the most famous images of this Bodhisattva is at Zenko-ji, Nagano.

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