In Japanese the term bodhisattva is usually translated phonetically as bosatsu. Bodhisattva can also be translated as kakuujo, which can be taken as meaning either “a person seeking (going toward) awakening” or “a person coming from awakening.” When this word is used in contrast to the Small Vehicle monks, the shravakas, it seems to have the latter meaning. That is, a bodhisattva is an awakened one who comes into this actual world and works so that awakening will be embodied within this society. This is generally the meaning of “bodhisattva” in Mahayana Buddhism, and it is what the second group of chapters in the Lotus Sutra emphasizes.