ぼさつ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぼさつ – see the following entry.

【菩薩】 [noun] (Buddhism) Short for 菩提薩埵 (bodai-satta): a bodhisattva [noun] (obsolete) a title granted by the imperial court to notably virtuous high-ranking monks [noun] (archaic) a title applied to native Shinto deities after the spread of 本地垂迹 (honji suijaku, theological position prevalent until the Meiji period, explaining that Buddhist deities from India choose to appear in Japan as native kami) [noun] in gagaku circles, a dancer dressed up as a bodhisattva [noun] (colloquial) Synonym of 米 (kome): rice grains [noun] (by extension) a maidservant who cooks rice [proper noun] title of a piece of gagaku, categorized in the 唐楽 (tōgaku, literally “Tang music”) style Alternative spellings 𬻀, 𦬇

(This term, ぼさつ (bosatsu), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as ぼさつ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ぼさつ.)