童子

童子
(sa) kumāra, a boy, youth, son; a prince; a neophyte; a bodhisattva as son of the Tathāgata.
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經中常稱菩薩為童子, 一因菩薩是法王之真子, 二因無淫欲之念猶如世間之童子, 並非指年幼為童子。

Dictionary of Buddhist terms. 2013.

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