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Definition of Bodhisattvas
1. bodhisattva [n] - See also: bodhisattva
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bodhisattvas
Literary usage of Bodhisattvas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buddhist Art in India by Albert Grünwedel (1901)
"Two bodhisattvas of the later pantheon have a distinctly individual character
and thus have afforded material for some line works which may be mentioned as ..."
2. Buddhism in Tibet: Illustrated by Literary Documents and Objects of by Emil Schlagintweit (1863)
"Several segments of a circle beginning at the feet and joining the glory, serve
as frames for these pictures. The bodhisattvas are never represented with ..."
3. Outlines of Mahaŷâna Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1907)
"And perhaps in the following way was the reasoning then advanced by them relative
to the great problem of Buddhahood. We are all bodhisattvas. ..."
4. Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions by Percy Stafford Allen, John de Monins Johnson (1908)
"Now, what are the principal moral qualities of the bodhisattvas? The bodhisattvas
have distinctly their own conception of the world, which forms the ..."
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