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buddhist
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Word definitions for buddhist in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1810, from Buddha + -ist . An earlier word in this sense was a direct borrowing of Sanskrit Bauddha "follower of Buddha" (1801 in English), hence early erroneous hybrid compounds such as Boudhist , Bauddhist .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buddhist \Bud"dhist\, n. One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Buddhist was an American Thoroughbred racehorse . He won the 1889 Preakness Stakes .
Usage examples of buddhist.
I was desperate for company, even that of a Buddhist arhat with black gums.
Once, in the mountains of Bhutan, she had stared for hours at a Buddhist monk who was squatting on the ground in meditation.
Buddhist country of Bhutan was briefly conquered by its neighbor, Bangladesh, for the purpose of becoming a leadership haven.
Then a friend brought me photos of the Royal Bhutanese Dance Troupe performing at an Asia Pacific Festival, masked as gods and demons of Buddhist myth.
Dunhuang was, before 848, under Tibetan occupation for some time but the impulsion to model in stucco is more likely to have entered Tibet from other areas of Buddhist artistic influence, such as the Tar im Basin of Xinjiang to the north, Kashmir in the west and Bihar in the south.
Nalanda, in Bihar, which has been called the Oxford of Buddhist India.
Their specifically Buddhist application was linked to the quest for illumination and salvation by the rapid path as distinct from that of the earlier Mahayana, which offered the slow path of the bodhisattva with the ripening of the necessary perfections over numerous lives.
During the same reign a controversy developed between Chinese Buddhist adherents of the rapid path of Buddhahood and Indian defenders of the classical Mahayana or bodhisattva progression by stages.
The five hundred million Brahmanic and Buddhist believers hold that all the gods, men, demons, and various grades of animal life occupying this immeasurable array of worlds compose one cosmic family.
Throughout the immense kingdoms of the East, where the Brahmanic and Buddhist religions hold sway over six hundred millions of men, the notion of yadasanna that is, the merit instantaneously obtained when at the point of death fully prevails.
The Brahmanic as well as the Buddhist thinker relies on obtaining salvation by knowledge.
June, 1963, when he was driving back to the embassy after buying himself half a dozen new sports shirts from his Chinese tailor in Cholon, a Buddhist monk had walked across the road in front of him in just the same way, swinging a petrol can.
In English, Chon Look explained the purpose of wishing sticks, of paper talismans, of other objects used by Buddhists.
Somewhere, at the end of this strange walk, he would meet another other than Chon Look, the Buddhist.
Like Chon Look, the Buddhist, Soy Foon, the merchant, was sure that he was worthy of the confidence given by Kwa.