bodhisattva

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Derived terms

 * bodhisattva vows

Translations

 * Arabic: بُودِيسَاتْفَا
 * Armenian:
 * Bengali:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: бодисада
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 菩提薩埵
 * Esperanto: bodhisatvo
 * Finnish: bodhisattva
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბოდჰისატვა
 * German: Bodhisattva
 * Greek: μποντισάτβα
 * Hindi: बोधिसत्त्व
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: бодьсдь
 * Kazakh: бодхисаттва
 * Khmer: ពោធិសត្វ
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ພະໂພທິສັດ, ໂພທິສັດ
 * Malay: bodhisatwa
 * Manchu: ᠪᠣᡩᡳᠰᠠᡨᡠ
 * Marathi: बोधिसत्त्व
 * Mongolian: бодьсадва
 * Pali: bodhisatta
 * Persian: بوداسف, بوذاسف
 * Portuguese: bodhisattva
 * Russian: бодхиса́ттва,, бодиса́тва
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sinhalese: බෝධිසත්ත්‍ව
 * Spanish: bodhisattva
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ
 * Tocharian A: bodʰisattu
 * Uyghur: بۇدساتۋا
 * Vietnamese: (菩薩)