Boddhisatva
| Translations of Bodhisattva |
|
|---|---|
| English | enlightenment being |
| Pali | बोधिसत्त |
| Sanskrit | बोधिसत्त्व |
| Bengali | বোধিসত্ত্ব |
| Burmese |
ဗောဓိသတ် (IPA: [bɔ́dḭθaʔ]) |
| Chinese |
菩提薩埵（菩薩）, 菩提萨埵（菩萨） (Pinyin: pútísàduǒ (púsà) ) (Wade–Giles: p'u2-sa4) (Jyutping: pou4 tai4 saat3 do3)) |
| Japanese |
菩薩 (rōmaji: bosatsu) |
| Khmer | ពោធិសត្វ |
| Korean |
보살, 菩薩 (RR: bosal) |
| Mon |
တြုံလၟောဝ်ကျာ် ([kraoh kəmo caik]) |
| Sinhala | |
| Tibetan |
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ (byang chub sems dpa) |
| Thai | โพธิสัตว์ phothisat |
| Vietnamese | Bồ Tát |
| Glossary of Buddhism | |
In Buddhism, Bodhisattva is the Sanskrit term for anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated Bodhicitta, which is a spontaneous wish and a compassionate mind to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings. Bodhisattvas are a popular subject in Buddhist art.
In early Indian Buddhism, the term bodhisattva was primarily used to refer specifically to Gautama Buddha in his former life. The Jataka tales, which are the stories of the Buddha's past lives, depict the various attempts of the bodhisattva to embrace qualities like self-sacrifice and morality.
According to the Jataka tales, the term "bodhisattva" originally referred to the pre-enlightened practitioner of austerities that surpassed Śrāvakayana and Pratyekabuddhayana by far and completed Bodhisattvayana. Mount Potalaka, for example, is one of Bodhisattvayana. The term for practitioners who have not yet reached Bodhisattvayana was not fixed, but the terms Śrāvaka-Bodhisattva (聲聞菩薩) and Pratyekabuddha-Bodhisattva (縁覚菩薩) had already appeared in the Āgama scriptures of early Indian Buddhism.
Mahayana Buddhism did not place much emphasis in honoring Śrāvakayana and Pratyekabuddhayana since they were classified as part of the Hinayana, but praise of the general Bodhisattvayana was commonplace. Because Hinayana was disliked and the terms Śrāvaka-Bodhisattva or Pratyekabuddha-Bodhisattva were not widely used, while usage of the general term "bodhisattva" had grown in popularity. Nevertheless, "bodhisattva" retained an implied reference to someone on the path to become an arhat or pratyekabuddha. In contrast, the goal of Mahayana's bodhisattva path is to achieve Samyaksambodhiṃ.
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