different between buddha vs mahasattva

English

Alternative forms

• Buddha

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: bo?od?, IPA^(key): /?bud?/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bo?od?, IPA^(key): /?b?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?, -u?d?

Noun

buddha (countable and uncountable, plural buddhas)

1. A human being who has become enlightened and therefore a divine being.
2. A statue or image of the Buddha.
   • 1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise

     What the [expletive] are you doing with a buddha as a lampstand?

3. (informal, uncountable) marijuana

Related terms

• Buddhahood
• Buddhism
• Buddhist

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bud?a]
• Hyphenation: budd?ha

Noun

buddha m anim

1. buddha (a great enlightened being or a depiction thereof)

Declension

Further reading

• buddha in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• buddha in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Noun

buddha

1. buddha (enlightened human)

Declension

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?buth?]
• Hyphenation: budd?ha
• Rhymes: -h?

Noun

buddha (plural buddhák)

1. buddha (a great enlightened being or a depiction thereof)

Declension

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ????? (buddha, “awakened”).

Proper noun

buddha m

1. (Buddhism) Buddha, the enlightened one.

Noun

buddha m

1. (Buddhism) buddha

Verb

buddha

1. past participle of bujjhati

Declension

References

“buddha”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Swedish

Noun

buddha c

1. buddha (a great enlightened being or a depiction thereof)
2. Buddha

Declension

English

Etymology

Sanskrit ????????? (mah?sattva, “a great creature, great being”)

Noun

mahasattva (plural mahasattvas)

1. A bodhisattva who attains a high degree on the path of consciousness awakening.
2. A "great bodhisattva", one explicitly defined by their devotion to salvation of all beings through bodhicitta.

Synonyms

• bodhisattva

Translations

See also

• buddha
• nirvana
• Mahayana
• enlightenment