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n. - a being that compassionately refrains from entering nirvana in order to save others

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  • Not as a Boddhisatva, no, no, nor a guru, only as a friend who had something wonderful to share.
  • Young Mr. Chatwal smoked a Cuban cigar and watched it all with the placid knowing eyes of a Boddhisatva bad boy.
  • The first I listened to, “Boddhisatva Blues”, had this Pink Floyd keyboard intro followed by this Matthew Shipp style jazz piano riff and just got harder to describe...
  • Structurally, such an idea reminds me of the idea in Buddhism of the Boddhisatva who transcends the ego but stays in the world, rather than departing to nirvana, in...
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