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A 12th-century statue of the bodhisattva Vajrapāṇi from the Long Đoị Pagoda in Hà Nam Province , Vietnam . The statue is now in the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi .
Etymology
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Borrowed from (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Sanskrit बोधिसत्त्व ( bodhi-sattva , “ enlightened existence ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
bodhisattva (plural bodhisattvas )
( Buddhism ) A person who has taken specific lay or monastic vows and who is on the road to perfect knowledge; specifically, one who foregoes personal nirvana in order to help others achieve enlightenment .
( Buddhism ) An enlightened being existing in a form of existence beyond the ordinary forms of physical reality understood and acknowledged by scientific thought, resembling the Western notion of angels, but with a wealth of its own nuances and expectations. These include the compassionate working for enlightenment of all sentient beings.
Synonyms
Translations
bodhisattva
Arabic: بُودِيسَاتْفَا f ( bodisatvā )
Bengali: বোধিসত্ত্ব m ( bodhisattwa )
Burmese: ဗောဓိသတ် (my) ( bau:dhi.sat )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 菩薩 / 菩萨 (zh) ( púsà ) , 菩萨 (zh) ( púsà ) , 菩提薩埵 / 菩提萨埵 ( pútísàduǒ ) , 菩提萨埵 ( pútísàduǒ ) , 摩訶薩埵 / 摩诃萨埵 ( móhēsàduǒ ) , 摩诃萨埵 ( móhēsàduǒ )
Esperanto: bodhisatvo
Finnish: bodhisattva
French: bodhisattva (fr) m
German: Bodhisattva m
Greek: μποντισάτβα m ( bontisátva )
Hindi: बोधिसत्त्व m ( bodhisattva )
Indonesian: bodhisatwa (id)
Japanese: 菩薩 (ja) ( ぼさつ, bosatsu )
Khmer: ពោធិសត្វ ( pootʰiʔsat )
Korean: 보살 (ko) ( bosal )
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Lao: ພະໂພທິສັດ ( pha phō thi sat ) , ໂພທິສັດ ( phō thi sat )
Malay: bodhisatwa
Mongolian: бодьсадва ( bodʹsadva )
Pali: bodhisatta m
Persian: بوداسف ( budasef ) , بوذاسف ( budhasaf )
Portuguese: bodhisattva m or f
Russian: бодхиса́ттва m ( bodxisáttva ) , бодхиса́тва (ru) m ( bodxisátva ) , бодиса́тва m ( bodisátva )
Sanskrit: बोधिसत्त्व (sa) m ( bodhisattva )
Sinhalese: බෝධිසත්ත්ව ( bōdhisattwa )
Spanish: bodhisattva m or f
Thai: พระโพธิสัตว์ ( prá-poo-tí-sàt ) , โพธิสัตว์ ( poo-tí-sàt )
Tibetan: བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ ( byang chub sems dpa' )
Tocharian A: bodʰisattu
Uyghur: بۇدساتۋا ( budsatwa )
Vietnamese: bồ tát