Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in religion and related occupations]
8. people in religion

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People
4. people
5. people by state or condition

Narrower term/s

• guiding bodhisattvas

Anotations

Scope note:

Superhuman beings of infinite wisdom and compassion; Buddhist saints who, having only one birth to undergo before attaining Nirvana, consent to be reborn for the sake of suffering mankind. In Mahayana Buddhism, the spiritual ideal. In Theravada Buddhism, the term is exclusively used to identify historical Buddhas in their previous lives.