What is "bodhisattvas"

Usage examples of "bodhisattvas".

Thus yi-dam may be peaceful Tathagatas, bodhisattvas and goddesses as well as fierce and special manifestations like the one just described.

The monasteries provided spiritual guidance and pastoral activity and housed the shrines for the images of the Buddha and divine bodhisattvas created towards the end of the first millennium BC.

These heavenly audiences included bodhisattvas, beings who had taken the vow, as had the historical Buddha in a distant and earlier life, to strive for buddhahood.

The early Buddhist gods were thought of as bodhisattvas, worshipped in image and deemed to be possessed of powers to save and assist which were inseparable from high spiritual achievement, and their number gradually increased.

Tibetan deities and figures worshipped were drawn from Buddhas, bodhisattvas, goddesses, the special tutelary gods presiding over sects, monasteries and individuals, defenders of the faith who included great, fierce and terrible gods as well as more modest local spirits, gods of the cardinal points, saints from early Buddhist tradition, later philosophers, teachers, kings and wonder-workers.

In this group are paintings of the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, tutelary and guardian deities variously disposed.

Tathagatas, bodhisattvas, goddesses, special tutelaries, ancient teachers and ascetics, reformers and Dalai Lamas.

But the Bodhisattvas, remaining, regard the lives and deeds of this imperfect world with eyes and tears of compassion.