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菩薩 is the title of a Buddhist deity that exists to help you reach enlightenment.
In Buddhist beliefs, a bodhisattva (bodhisatta) is dedicated to helping us achieve enlightenment. Bodhisattva means enlightenment truth which is bodhi sattva in Sanskrit.
This term is sometimes used to refer to a kindhearted person, one who will sacrifice himself/herself for others and lacks ego or desire but is instead devoted to the good and well-being of others.
See Also: Buddha | Namo Amitabha
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your sattva search...
| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
有情 see styles |
yǒu qíng you3 qing2 yu ch`ing yu ching yuujun / yujun ゆうじゅん |
to be in love; sentient beings (Buddhism) (1) {Buddh} (See 非情・2) sentient beings; (2) (ant: 無情・1) humaneness; compassion; (personal name) Yūjun sattva, 薩埵 in the sense of any sentient being; the term was formerly tr. 衆生 all the living, which includes the vegetable kingdom, while 有情 limits the meaning to those endowed with consciousness. |
索哆 see styles |
suǒ chǐ suo3 chi3 so ch`ih so chih sakuta |
v. 薩 sattva. |
薩埵 萨埵 see styles |
sà duǒ sa4 duo3 sa to satta さった |
(1) {Buddh} sattva (sentient beings); (2) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 菩提薩埵) bodhisattva; (3) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 金剛薩埵) Vajrasattva sattva, being, existence, essence, nature, life, sense, consciousness, substance, any living or sentient being, etc. M.W. Tr. by 情 sentient, 有情 possessing sentience, feeling, or consciousness; and by 衆生 all the living. Abbrev. for bodhisattva. Also 薩多婆; 薩怛嚩; 索埵, etc. |
衆生 众生 see styles |
zhòng shēng zhong4 sheng1 chung sheng shujou; shuusei; sujou(ok) / shujo; shuse; sujo(ok) しゅじょう; しゅうせい; すじょう(ok) |
{Buddh} all living things; mankind; the people; the world sattva; all the living, living beings, older tr. 有情 sentient, or conscious beings; also many lives, i.e. many transmigrations. |
さった see styles |
satsuda サツダ |
(1) (Buddhist term) (abbreviation) sattva (being); (2) bodhisattva; (place-name) Satsuda |
離諸惡趣 离诸恶趣 see styles |
lí zhū è qù li2 zhu1 e4 qu4 li chu o ch`ü li chu o chü risho akushu |
sarva-sattva-apāya-jahanā |
媽哈薩督呀 妈哈萨督呀 see styles |
mā hā sà dū xiā ma1 ha1 sa4 du1 xia1 ma ha sa tu hsia magōsatoke |
mahāsattva, a great or noble being; the perfect bodhisattva, greater (mahā) than any other being (sattva) except a Buddha; v. 摩訶薩埵. |
薩埵(oK) |
satta さった |
(1) (abbreviation) {Buddh} sattva (being); (2) (See ぼだいさった) bodhisattva |
棄於衆生一切惡趣 弃于众生一切恶趣 see styles |
qì yú zhòng shēng yī qiè è qù qi4 yu2 zhong4 sheng1 yi1 qie4 e4 qu4 ch`i yü chung sheng i ch`ieh o ch`ü chi yü chung sheng i chieh o chü ki o shūjō issai akushu |
sarva-sattva-apāya |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Bodhisattva | 菩薩 菩萨 | bosatsu | pú sà / pu2 sa4 / pu sa / pusa | p`u sa / pusa / pu sa |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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