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sattva

/suht-vuh/US // ˈsʌt və //

萨特瓦,萨特瓦尔,萨特沃

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Hinduism.

    • : See under guna.

Examples

  • Thus "sight," or the power of seeing, is a modification of the quality of sattva unobstructed by rajas and tamas.

  • These, too, every Bodhi-sattva had to practise before he could attain Buddhahood.

  • Until his final birth, however, a Bodhi-sattva is a being in whom true knowledge is rather latent and undeveloped than perfected.

  • He represents the incarnation of a higher Bodhi-sattva or deified saint, but he sometimes claims to be an incarnated Buddha.

  • I, too, in my former existence of a Bodhi-sattva found it efficacious in securing victory.