Talk:Bodhisattva

message: I have been hesitant to add anything to this discussion because I am so ignorant about Buddhism compared to the other people who post here. I was wondering if anyone had seen Kon Ichikawa's film "the Burmese Harp" ?  It seems to me that the protagonist, Miziushima, is an example of one who has become a Bodhisattva when he passed up a ride home with his friends and stayed in Burma to bury all the body's of soldier's killed in the later part of the pacific war.  Is that an example of a bodhinsattva or am I way off base?
thanks srlasky (talk) 01:57, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bodhisattva's in the movies?

message: If you're going to include then I think you have to include all. (OR you can delete all but china since chinese buddhism is the root of korean, japanese, and vietnamese buddhism.) There's no reason why Korean and Vietnamese names are not important. Janviermichelle 22:56, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason is that they are rarely used in English. - Nat Krause(Talk!) 01:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Those words in Chinese, Japanese and Pali are common in English? Janviermichelle 07:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Relatively common, yes, I think. Actually, the Chinese probably isn't very common, but it would seem a bit odd to have the characters in there without some kind of Chinese pronunciation. The Pali will tend to be used by students of Theravada Buddhism, and the Japanese shows up now and then because Japanese Buddhists had a disproportionate influence on English-language Buddhist jargon in the 20th century. - Nat Krause(Talk!) 23:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

text: If someone can add the vietnamese and korean, let's go ahead and do so to round things out.  --Ph0kin 18:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bodhisattva in various languages

message: The things brought up in these two paragraphs are totally confusing to me. My background is Tibetan Buddhism, so where does this info come from? Para 2.2. is a very strange interpretation of the Jataka tales, certainly not one that I believe is mainstream? Also 2.3 suggests as if one can go beyond buddhahood into praccekabuddha - sounds like upside-down to me? rudy 16:33, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Paragraph 2.2 and 2.3

message: Tried to fix a fair bunch of things, including the point that half the page was gone... I hope this makes is better readable?rudy 20:45, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixes

message: I wrote a paragraph about this, deleted it when I read the bit about "Shepard Bodhistatva" then I have come back having read one of the external links about the three people in the desert. It seems to suggest that those that leap into enlightenment are less able to lead others into the water of enligtenment. The fact that there are "Shepard" Boddhistatva's seems to suggest that there is something problematic about being a "King" or being enlightened. Is this a Buddhist dillema?
It seems to be a matter of differences between schools. Tibetan Buddhism says that Buddhas remain in some sort of existence for ever, so there's no point in delaying Buddhahood. All the other ideas must therefore belong to various forms of East Asian Buddhism. Eg Cook, Hua-yen Buddhism (pennsylvania State University Press, 1977), says that school believes in delaying Buddhahood till all beings are liberated, apparently for ever. Peter jackson (talk) 11:23, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Brinkmanship

message: Copied here from Help:Edit summary/feedback. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:13, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Padmapani, Lokesvara, and Lokanatha are all names for Avalokitesvara. In fact, the form Padmapani-Avalokitesvara is sometimes used. Tengu800 21:07, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ajanta caves 

message: And then it was reverted by someone who didn't make any other change, restoring the grammatically incorrect version. --Skaizun (talk) 11:13, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar: Chg'd "enlightenment" to "enlightened" 

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message: A lot of work has gone into this article (which indeed is now rather too long), but I think it creates considerable problems for the reader. The lead is pretty confusing - right at the start, in "[a] bodhisatva is any person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood", the "any" is at best highly misleading, and not very helpful.  There is much too much on "how to become a bodhisattva"; I think much of this should be split off to a new article. The huge etymology section should be moved well down the article, and the sections on actual recognised bodhisattvas moved up to below the lead.  This is likely to be of most interest after the lead. Johnbod (talk) 21:05, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
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