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[[File:Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas Descending from Heaven, c. 1300.jpg|thumb|<translate>''Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas Descending from Heaven'', Japan, Kamakura period (c. 1300)</translate>]]
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Both the ''[[arhat]]'' [a Buddhist adept or saint] and the ''bodhisattva'' were unworldly idealists; but the ''arhat'' exhibited his idealism by devoting himself to meditation and self-culture, while the bodhisattva actively rendered service to other living beings.<ref>Har Dayal, ''The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature'' (New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1932), p. 29.</ref>
Both the ''[[arhat]]'' [a Buddhist adept or saint] and the ''bodhisattva'' were unworldly idealists; but the ''arhat'' exhibited his idealism by devoting himself to meditation and self-culture, while the bodhisattva actively rendered service to other living beings.<ref>Har Dayal, ''The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature'' (New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1932), p. 29.</ref>
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== Bodhisattvas ==
[[Maitreya]]
[[Kuan Yin]]


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Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “The Age of Maitreya,” October 28, 1990.
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