| Noun | 1. | Bodhisattva - Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help othersdeity, divinity, god, immortal - any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force Maitreya - the Bodhisattva who is to appear as a Buddha 5000 years after the death of Gautama | |