(1) It is in this type of Buddhism that the bodhisattva emerges.(2) He went into a state of deep meditation and let the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara, do the talking.(3) Each word of the dharma is a bodhisattva who is communicating to you.(4) To explain some further aspects of visualization meditation, we can go through the basic stages of a short practice of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.(5) According to the bodhisattva , the mahayana teachings are the real words of the Buddha.(6) Everyone who subscribes to the Mahayana technically becomes a bodhisattva , but for most this is just the starting point of their long course of spiritual development.(7) This, the most important beam of the house, stretches across the upstairs reception hall, where women of the house daily worshipped the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin.(8) We invite all the Buddhas, bodhisattvas , all the great teachers and the deceased to the dharma room and we chant so that everybody wakes up together.(9) All the Buddhas and bodhisattvas attained realization through first developing bodhicitta within themselves.(10) They are the living presence of all the various aspects of enlightenment - both its qualities and its activities - envisioned as male and female Buddhas, bodhisattvas , protectors of dharma, and so on.(11) They include prostrations, making offerings to statues of Buddhas or bodhisattvas , attending public teachings and ceremonies.(12) It is limited and discriminatory, and it is not the compassion of the bodhisattvas .(13) But some enlightened beings, called bodhisattvas , defer their nirvana, returning to human form to help others free themselves from the cycle.(14) In the Buddhist tradition, bodhisattvas aspire to enlightenment, dedicating their transformed minds and actions to the liberation of all beings.(15) Realizing the intensity of suffering of all living beings in samsara, bodhisattvas have developed limitless compassion and love.(16) Within some Mahayana Buddhist texts, for example, bodhisattvas are described as having halos studded with 500 Buddhas, each attended by numberless gods.
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