Sentences with phrase «bodhisattva who»

He is still a Bodhisattva and pays homage to the Buddhas, but he is a Bodhisattva who has become Tathagata.

The word God is a Christian word, and often when Christians use it, we refer, not to a relational Bodhisattva who adapts to each situation, but rather to a changeless and independent Consciousness who saves only Christians and who is cut off from the world by the boundaries of divine transcendence.

We are reminded of the great songs of praise in the Saddharma - Pundarika, in which the Buddha reveals to all the Bodhisattvas who have completed the course their destiny to supreme and perfect enlightenment.17

«13 Like the Holy Universal Buddhas, the Bodhisattvas who follow after them take upon themselves the heaviest burdens in order to serve all suffering creatures.

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What is needed, she seems to say, is a God who is less like a benevolent dictator and more like a cosmic Bodhisattva.

Christians should learn from the Buddhist Bodhisattva symbolizing compassion and mercy, one who is willing to postpone personal salvation for the sake of others.

It is the Bodhisattva, who is striving after Buddhahood on the difficult Path of the ten stages.

This is the breath and the substance of those beings who have been specifically created by the Mahayana belief — the Bodhisattvas.

Because his love has been strong, and because they once took a vow to remain visible to those who would follow them, the Bodhisattva of the next stage is permitted to enjoy the sight of the Buddhas.

In all honesty, today Christians have to ask whether their own concepts of salvation are any more universal in intention than those implied, for example, in the Buddhist ideal of the bodhisattva, one who is portrayed as having such sentiments as these:

But not to those believers who speak of the Communion of Saints or the Vow of the Bodhisattva.

It followed from the teachings of Kobo - Daishi, who in his sermons taught the people that the Shinto gods are identical with the Bodhisattvas of the Buddhist doctrines.

That is why, in the spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism, there are so many fierce Bodhisattvas: saint - like figures who harshly treat the ego with indifference.

If we take our cue from the Vimalakirti - nirdesa Sutra, the bodhisattva is a fully awakened being for whom it is an implication of his perfect enlightenment (rather than a postponement of it) that he remain in solidarity with all who are afflicted by illness and ignorance, birth and death.

According to them, there had always been «enlightened ones,» Buddhas; and there are continually those who are predestined to be such, Bodhisattvas.

He was once a monk who entered upon the way of a Bodhisattva.

Any man may aspire to this, and become a Bodhisattva, i.e., one who is on the way to becoming a Buddha.

Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have postponed their own nirvana and chosen to take rebirth in order to serve humanity.

The Bodhisattva is a Master, a wandering master who shares a number of characteristics with another figure: the stylite.

The element of presence / absence, spanning the physical and the metaphorical, is the Bodhisattva, a Buddhist figure who renounces divinity in order to stay on and teach men the path that leads towards divinity; the very path that he is the first to renounce.