bodhisattva

• A bodhisattva, Dizang Wang, took her spirit to the Forest of Corpses, where she helped the unsettled ghosts. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• So, we say that Peng has come back to us as a Tara bodhisattva, and we started paying more attention to the girls and the nuns, something of course that I have always encouraged. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• The first was an exquisite image of the Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva, the Buddha of Compassion; next, a fierce depiction of the Kalazyga demon, with fangs, three eyes, and a headdress of skulls, dancing wildly in the midst of a raging fire. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• This is the basis for the Bodhisattva Vow. bodhisattva is an "awakening being" and his or her vow is this: to strive along the path to Buddhahood, supreme awakening, while at the same time promising never to leave samsara until each and every sentient being has been established in the supreme bliss of enlightenment beyond any possibility of suffering, no matter how many countless lifetimes this takes. —  Dreaming Of Danzan Ravjaa
• I cannot claim in any way to be a bodhisattva, and yet I truly wish for your every satisfaction in this world, and your liberation in inconceivable enlightened bliss: —  Dreaming Of Danzan Ravjaa

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