Definition of "mahasattva" [mahasattva]

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

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• "The word in Sanskrit, here, is "mahasattva," which we find, for example, in The Heart Sutra."
• "Shariputra and noble Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva mahasattva, that whole assembly and the world with its gods, humans, asuras [jealous gods], and gandharvas"
• "Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva mahasattva [great bodhisattva], while practicing the profound prajnaparamita, saw in this way: he saw the five skandhas to be empty of nature."