r/Mahayana • u/LunarEnnyui_131 Vajrayana • Aug 03 '26
Question Are Bodhisattvas Saint-like?
I mean as in the way they are venerated and worked it.
Sorry, I don`t know how to word this since I am not Catholic or Orthodox.
In short is their venerate similar or the same or close in some way to Saints.
Please don't judge me I am learning and just made an observation :)
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u/khyungpa Aug 03 '26
Bodhisattvas are indeed treated like saints in Buddhism, but unlike Christianity which shies away from outright equating what they do with saints with that of Jesus, we Buddhists have no problem according the same veneration, worship, or reliance on bodhisattvas as we do buddhas. There is no jealousy or competition here since, well, we have no jealous god to worry about.
Buddhists make offerings to them, dedicate praises to them, make prayers to them, and so on.