Sentences with phrase «buddhist bodhisattvas»

Ahhh, keeping with the ecumenical skepticism, maybe adding to the silly religious imagery by adding a a few Buddhist Bodhisattvas and a couple Islamic Jinn rolling in the clouds laughing would have been fun!

Like a Buddhist bodhisattva, God never gives up.

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

An analogy may be found in the Mahayana Buddhist bodhisattva ideal.

Not exact matches

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:

Would it be surprising if a Buddhist tendered the same sort of devotional regard toward the salvific person of the bodhisattva that Christians give to Jesus?

I think that an ancient Buddhist text from the Mahayana tradition, in portraying the ideal of the bodhisattva, expresses accurately the divine sensitivity to suffering suggested by the Whiteheadian view:

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.

To this day it's still a place of worship for many Hong Kongers and even if you're not Buddhist, you can sense the peaceful state of just «being» in the wind blowing between the pillars leading up to the bodhisattvas» divinity.

Located in the centre of Chengdu on Wenshu Yuan Jie road, the temple was built during the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD) to honour the Buddhist representation of Wisdom, Wenshu Pusa (Bodhisattva Manjusri in Sanskrit).

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.

Simulating the reproductions of the one - thousand - armed bodhisattva of compassion known as Senju Kannon, Sugimoto's images signify the Buddhist practice of replicating manifestations of a deity in order to achieve spiritual merit.