觀無量壽佛經義疏 2.15

2.15

'Bodhisattva': in Sanskrit, mahā-bodhi-citta-sattva; translated here as 'sentient being who has realized the great mind of bodhi'. Although the name contains both great and small, and their practices have degrees of shallow and deep, those who heard it together here are all none other than [bodhisattvas in the position of] succession. Second, listing the number.