bodhisattva (11034)

bodhisattva
Entry 11034, Page 403, Col. 1

(boDisattva, boDisattva)
bodhisattva¦ (= Pali °satta), person destined for enlightenment, Buddha-to-be, passim; Mvy 625, followed by list of standard epithets of such persons incl. jinaputra; other epithets meaning son of Buddha are frequent; there are many lists of names, such as the 92 beginning Mvy 645; each name in such lists as occur in works here included is, generally speaking, recorded in this Dict., but e.g. the list Mmk 8.21 ff. is omitted because it is very corrupt and obscure, even the word-division being often doubtful; eight special B's listed Dharmas 12, Maitreya, Gagana- gañja, Samantabhadra, Vajrapāṇi, Mañjuśrī, Sarva- nivaraṇaviṣkambhin, Kṣitigarbha, Khagarbha, qq.v.; in SP 64.12--13 (sa tvaṃ) Śāriputra bodhisattva-saṃman- tritena °ttva-rahasyeneha mama pravacana upapannaḥ, sa tvaṃ…bodhisattvādhiṣṭhānena…, refers to Śāriputra's own saṃmantrita (q.v.) etc. as a Bodhisattva, not (with Burnouf and Kern) to the Buddha's (they use the word Bodhisattva in translating, but understand it as referring to the Buddha, which is contrary to usage).

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