Bodhisattvas
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bodhisattvas · [heroic] being · bodhisattva · bodhisattva(s) · noble Mahāyāna practitioners · protecting bodhisattva · sons of the Conqueror · the Lord Bodhisattvas · the bodhisattva path · the great beings
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Abhisamayālaṅkāravivaraṇa
Mahāyāna practitioners whose progressive path—from accumulation through the ten grounds to buddhahood—structures nearly every topic in the passage.
its range extends from the bodhisattva on the path of accumulation up to the bodhisattva at the final moment.
the arising of bodhicitta in bodhisattvas is fourfold:
the conceptual Mahāyāna subsequent realisation which dedicates the meritorious actions, one's own and others' wholesome [deeds], toward unsurpassed perfect awakening — that Mahāyāna path of cultivation called dedication is the definition.
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
A class of advanced beings who appear alongside the Buddhas in the practitioner's visionary experiences.
the great Buddhas and the vajra-bearing bodhisattvas bow down [to him].
He sees [himself] being worshipped by the great beings of the triple realm, and surely by Buddhas and bodhisattvas, with the five strands of sense-pleasure.
San Hyan Kamahayanikan
Great beings devoted to upholding the teaching and working for the welfare of all beings, held up as a model.
*Just as the Bodhisattvas devotedly protect the Vinaya, so too should the pure one work for the welfare of all beings through passion and the other afflictions.
It is like the Lord Bodhisattvas, the great beings, who are truly devoted to upholding the sacred *Mantranaya*.