Sanskrit Noun
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
बोधिसत्त्व
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།
菩薩
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 those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.
| Term Variations | |
|---|---|
| Key Term | Bodhisattva |
| Topic Variation | Bodhisattva |
| Tibetan | བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ། ( jangchub sempa) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | byang chub sems dpa' ( jangchub sempa) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | बोधिसत्त्व ( bodhisattva) |
| Romanized Sanskrit | bodhisattva ( bodhisattva) |
| Chinese | 菩薩 |
| Chinese Pinyin | pú sà |
| Japanese | 菩薩 |
| Japanese Transliteration | bosatsu |
| Korean | 보살 |
| Korean Transliteration | bosal |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | Bodhisattva |
| Term Information | |
| 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 those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Definitions | |
| 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 | rigpa:Bodhisattva |
