(Buddhism) A person who has taken specific lay or monastic vows and who is on the road to perfect knowledge; specifically, one who foregoes personal nirvana in order to help others achieve enlightenment.
(Buddhism) An enlightened being existing in a form of existence beyond the ordinary forms of physical reality understood and acknowledged by scientific thought, resembling the Western notion of angels, but with a wealth of its own nuances and expectations. These include the compassionate working for enlightenment of all sentient beings.
bodhisattvas
bodhisattvas
noun
plural of bodhisattva
bravehearted
overbepatched
overinhibited
overinhibited
adj
(psychology) Excessively inhibited.
tadbhava
tadbhava
noun
(lexicography) A word inherited from Old Indo-Aryan through a Prakrit used in a modern Indo-Aryan language.
vertebrochondral
vertebrochondral
adj
Of or relating to ribs (specifically, the eighth, ninth, and tenth ribs) connected to vertebrae at one end and at the other with costal cartilages of other ribs; vertebrocostal, but not vertebrosternal.
