Buddhist
['budist]
Definition
(noun.) one who follows the teachings of Buddha.
(adj.) of or relating to or supporting Buddhism; 'Buddhist sculpture' .
Typed by Gus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
Inputed by Bobbie
Examples
- It is even related that in the third century B.C. Buddhist missionaries came from the court of King Asoka in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yuan Chwang gives an interesting account of a great Buddhist university at Nalanda, where ruins have quite recently been discovered and excavated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In a well-known early Buddhist dialogue there is a destructive analysis of the idea of an enduring individual soul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Buddhist writers thought very highly of Tai-tsung because of his reception of Yuan Chwang (645). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some authorities think that the spread of Buddhist teaching from China also had a pacifying influence upon them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Tibet was more and more closely linked with China, and became the great home of Buddhism and Buddhist monasticism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He made vast benefactions to the Buddhist teaching orders, and tried to stimulate them to a better study of their own literature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Jesuits, in a phase of ascendancy, persecuted and insulted the Buddhists with great acrimony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We are trying to write as if this book was to be read as much by Hindus or Moslems or Buddhists as by Americans and Western Europeans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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