Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
Fine Dictionary

Buddhist

ˈbudəst
WordNet
Statuette of a man and a Buddhist lion.
Statuette of a man and a Buddhist lion.
  1. (adj) Buddhist
    of or relating to or supporting Buddhism "Buddhist sculpture"
  2. (n) Buddhist
    one who follows the teachings of Buddha
Illustrations
Buddhist Trinity: Buddha with two Bodhisattvas, perhaps Padmapani and Vajrapani.
Buddha between two bodhisattvas
Snowy landscape with in the foreground Nichiren, founder of the Buddhist Lotus sect, in red robes, climbing a snowy slope; at the bottom of the mountain a village by the sea; by a gray sky with swirling snowflakes.
In the snow at Tsukahara in Sado
Sheet with four representations of Buddhist gods, Confucius and customs in China. Top left: Image of Han, king of the Tangut people. A llama or priest kneels before him. Top right: Llamas pray by flags in the mountains. Bottom left: Image and worship of Confucius. Bottom right: The Japanese god Amida.
Sheet with four representations of Buddhist gods, Confucius and customs in China. Top left: Image of Han, king of the Tangut people. A llama or priest kneels before him. Top right: Llamas pray by flags in the mountains. Bottom left: Image and worship of Confucius. Bottom right: The Japanese god Amida.
Buddhist (?) Image fragment. Two-armed deity; too few attributes have been preserved for a certain attribution.
Male deity
Side view of the Buddhist temple Borobudur on the island of Java.
Side view of the Buddhist temple Borobudur on the island of Java.
Top view of the Longhua Buddhist temple complex in Shanghai. Part of Dolph Kessler's photo album with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip he undertook as secretary to Henri Deterding (director of Royal Oil) to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and the United States, between 1906 and 1908.
Top view of the Longhua Buddhist temple complex in Shanghai. Part of Dolph Kessler's photo album with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip he undertook as secretary to Henri Deterding (director of Royal Oil) to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and the United States, between 1906 and 1908.
Buddhist temple complex in Canton. Part of Dolph Kessler's photo album with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip he undertook as secretary to Henri Deterding (director of Royal Oil) to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and the United States, between 1906 and 1908.
Buddhist temple complex in Canton. Part of Dolph Kessler's photo album with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip he undertook as secretary to Henri Deterding (director of Royal Oil) to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and the United States, between 1906 and 1908.
Nichiren, the founder of the Buddhist Lotus sect, standing in red robes with rosary in right hand, in full boat, conjuring the high waves with the sutra 'namu myo kyo' visible in the water.
Nichiren, the founder of the Buddhist Lotus sect, standing in red robes with rosary in right hand, in full boat, conjuring the high waves with the sutra 'namu myo kyo' visible in the water.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Before the Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1952, 25 percent of the males in the country were Buddhist monks.
  1. Buddhist
    Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
  2. Buddhist
    One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.
  1. (n) buddhist
    One who professes Buddhism; a follower of the religious system founded by Buddha.
  2. buddhist
    Of or pertaining to Buddha or Buddhism.
  3. buddhist
    Stupas or topes, large towers, some built in the form of a hemisphere, others partly cylindrical and finished at the top with either a flat circle or a pointed dome-like terminal. The topes were erected in honor of some sacred event or place, and are sometimes employed to contain relics of Buddha or of a saint. In the latter case the tope is called a dagoba.
  4. buddhist
    Rails, formed of elaborately sculptured pillars, built around topes, temples, and other sacred objects.
  5. buddhist
    Chaitya halls, cut out of the living rock, and corresponding closely in plan with Christian churches. The positions of the altar or relic-casket, aisles, and apse are frequently the same in both.
  6. buddhist
    Viharas, or monasteries, originally built of red sandal-wood, but in exceptional circumstances excavated from the solid rock, with halls having their ceilings supported by elaborately sculptured pillars cut from the natural rock, and surrounded by a number of small sleeping-cells. A characteristic of the Buddhist style is the pseudo-arch, formed by courses of stones each overlapping that below it, till the two sides approach so closely that the opening at the top can be covered by a single stone.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Buddhist
    a believer in Buddhism
  2. (adjs) Buddhist
    pertaining to Buddhism
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Sans. buddha, wise, from budh, to know.

Usage in the news

Obama gets taste of Thailand at Buddhist temple. sunherald.com

Case in point, Pema Wangdak, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, who the other day could be found sitting in traffic that crept along the Cross Bronx Expressway at 10 miles an hour. nytimes.com

Atsushi Chiba used Buddhist rituals in caring for nearly 1,000 bodies in Kamaishi. nytimes.com

This isn't one of those unanswerable Zen Buddhist questions. allure.com

Unitarian Universalists are theologically diverse, ranging from Buddhists, to nature loving, Thoreauvian Transcendentalists, to liberal Christians and Jews, to Humanists, to atheists. blog.timesunion.com

The UUBF is a point of connection and conversation between Unitarian Universalism and the wider Buddhist universe. blog.timesunion.com

People who are Unitarian Universalists and have an interest in Buddhism or do some kind of Buddhist practice. blog.timesunion.com

" Vajra Sky Over Tibet" is an illuminating meditation on that deepest of Buddhist philosophical concerns -- impermanence. variety.com

Myanmar's government has launched a major operation aimed at verifying the citizenship of Muslims in western Rakhine state, the coastal territory that has been torn apart by Buddhist-Muslim violence since June. lakewyliepilot.com

A rare white elephant has been captured in the jungles of northwestern Myanmar, a mostly Buddhist country where the animals are considered good omens, state media reported Tuesday. cbsnews.com

The long-ago kings of Siam dealt with overmighty subjects by presenting them with rare white elephant s from the royal stables, animals sacred in Buddhist tradition. browardpalmbeach.com

The exiled Buddhist spiritual leader of Tibet is making a series of appearances at US college campuses this year, including the University of Virginia on Thursday. newsleader.com

Zen Buddhist priest to speak at church. pe.com

Zen Buddhist priest to speak at chapel. pe.com

A Zen Buddhist priest will visit Unity Chapel in Hemet on Wednesday, Sept 19, as part of the church's eight-week "Building Bridges of Understanding" series. pe.com

Usage in scientific papers

This is Manjusri, in Buddhist teaching, the bodhisattva associated with wisdom triumphant over all obstacles.
Summary of Lepton Photon 2011

Usage in literature

Buddhist Sceptre, symbolism of, 157. "Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern" by Rosa Belle Holt

No sect has such entire confidence in the power of prayer as the Buddhists. "The Religious Sentiment" by Daniel G. Brinton

Among them, however, are occasional "kyoungs," or Buddhist monasteries, which are much more ornamental and striking. "Burma" by R.Talbot Kelly

DEVA (Sanskrit "heavenly"), in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, spirits of the light and air, and minor deities generally beneficent. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3" by Various

The two principal religions are the Shinto and the Buddhist. "Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife" by Marietta Holley

Buddhist pictures of hell teach the eye the same lesson that is taught the ear by Christian sermons. "Flowers of Freethought" by George W. Foote

Further, he stuck to the Buddhist stories as he found them. "Flowers of Freethought" by George W. Foote

Not one in this present world-period: this is why Buddhists so love him, and why good Buddhists try to be like him. "The Buddhist Catechism" by Henry S. Olcott

I could not help reflecting that Madame Blavatsky in her lifetime had professed the Buddhist faith, which is that of the majority in Japan. "The International Spy" by Allen Upward

It is what the Buddhist priests wear over the left arm in procession. "Letters from China and Japan" by John Dewey

Usage in poetry
Hence by the Buddhists, in counting the corses
Heaping with horror the death-trampled plain,
Not unremembered are thousands of horses,
Left unattended to die with the slain.
"The Unforgotten Heroes" by John Lawson Stoddard
One dome overarches the star-bannered shore;
You may enter the Pope's or the Puritan's door,
Or pass with the Buddhist his gateway of bronze,
For a priest is but Man, be he bishop or bonze.
"At The Banquet To the Japanese Embassy" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Author object (518)