Translations:Bodhisattva/30/en

From TSL Encyclopedia

Both the arhat [a Buddhist adept or saint] and the bodhisattva were unworldly idealists; but the arhat exhibited his idealism by devoting himself to meditation and self-culture, while the bodhisattva actively rendered service to other living beings.[1]

  1. Har Dayal, The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature (New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1932), p. 29.