Example sentences for: bodhisattva

How can you use “bodhisattva” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its centerpiece is a gilded seated wooden statue of the Kannon Bodhisattva, 3.3 m (11 ft) high, with 11 faces on the crown of its head and 40 arms (extravagantly known as “a thousand arms”) wielding bells, wheels, and lotus flowers.

  • Tobey painted calligraphic "white paintings" and Graves bodhisattva birds, in delicate gouache and pastel--media notably unsuited to large atriums.

  • An example of the fusion of religions prevalent in Nepal, the inner temple to this Bodhisattva is encircled by Buddhist prayer wheels, while Hindu images are mounted on pedestals.

  • The Mahayana (Great Vehicle) school added the concept of Bodhisattva as divine savior, and was then the most dominant form of Buddhism, spreading to China and Japan.


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