The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bodhisat \Bo"dhi*sat\, ||Bodhisattva \Bo`dhi*satt"va\, ||Bodhisattwa \Bo`dhi*satt"wa\, n. [Skr. b[=o]dhisattva (perh. through Pali b[=o]dhisatt[=o]); fr. b[=o]dhi knowledge, enlightenment + sattva being, essence.] (Buddhism) One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- Bo"dhi*sat`ship, n.
Usage examples of "bodhisat".
But the lama strode out, head high in air, and pausing an instant before the great statue of a Bodhisat in meditation, brushed through the turnstiles.
A low cushion gave him a seat, on which he had disposed himself in the cross-legged attitude of the Bodhisat emerging from meditation.
Men say that the Bodhisat Himself first drew it with grains of rice upon dust, to teach His disciples the cause of things.
Even the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan bowed before the ancestors of Manjusri, who are said to be the incarnations of the Bodhisat of Knowledge.
So does the stone Bodhisat sit who looks down upon the patent self-registering turnstiles of the Lahore Museum.