Word: bodhisattva
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Mowry’s favorite piece in the show is a 14th century Korean scroll painting of a bodhisattva (an enlightened being who has chosen to help others attain enlightenment rather than reach nirvana himself), cloaked by thin veils of diaphanous silk. “The work is extraordinarily well painted and well preserved,” he said...
...tried to continue reading. I had to finish multiple books of The Bodhicharyavatara, a central text of Mahayana Buddhism, for my tutorial that afternoon. It’s the guide to being a bodhisattva, one who has dedicated oneself not just to attaining enlightenment, but also to saving “all beings from suffering.” “All beings” includes flies. Someone who has taken the bodhisattva vows has dedicated himself or herself to eons of work while remaining in the cycle of samsara—the cycle of death and rebirth characterized...
...Some may go to Shantideva for consolation. It was in the eighth century, around the time that the iconoclastic synod gathered, that the Buddhist master composed the "Bodhisattvacharyavatara" or "The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life," a classic of Mahayana Buddhism...