(n.) The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(2) The original omitted Buddhism from a list of religions with more followers in England and Wales than the number of people who described themselves as Jedi Knights in the 2011 census.
(3) His Glass family argued their way through issues of religion and compromise in a succession of stories published in the New Yorker, including Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Franny; Zooey; and Seymour: An Introduction, while rumours of their author's experiments with Buddhism, Hinduism, Christian Science, acupunture and diet continued to spread.
(4) A follower of Buddhism who had practised meditation for many years, he gathered his mental resources for what he described as "an experience to which no name can be given".
(5) He travelled to Japan to study Buddhism, then Calcutta to work with the poor.
(6) He was now reading Zen and Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, and Advaita Vedanta, and putting in long hours of meditation.
(7) Last week it emerged that a team led by Coningham, a professor of archaeology and pro-vice-chancellor at Durham University, had made a startling discovery about the date of the Buddha's birth, one that could rewrite the history of Buddhism.
(8) He recalls discussing Cicero, the Alhambra, Aids, Buddhism and everything else under the sun with the nephew who loved Latin and basketball.
(9) He was a Buddhist: a Latino son of immigrants who practised Buddhism is the kind of hybrid San Francisco used to be good at.
(10) The Chinese government says it has to approve all reincarnations of living Buddhas, or senior religious figures in Tibetan Buddhism, including the choice of the next Dalai Lama.
(11) This speculation put him at the heart of a political game with the Chinese who are determined to wrest control of Tibetan Buddhism after the passing of the Dalai Lama.
(12) Her ideologies of choice are Buddhism and the Girl Scouts.
(13) I once did a series called painting from the nine religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and everything else ism.
(14) The Buddhas are a powerful symbol – of confessional tolerance, Buddhism in a Muslim country and the remains of the Silk Road – with scope for considerable political kudos, so academic quarrels have been diverted to serve strategic aims.
(15) One possible successor to the Dalai Lama is Ugyen Trinley who is seen by many as the 17th Karmapa, the spiritual head of one of the most popular of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism .
(16) We have to find a solution based on the philosophy of Buddhism."
(17) David Mathieson, a senior researcher on Burma for Human Rights Watch, said: “The Ma Ba Tha have become an unaccountable and arrogant political force based on extremist religious and social views, like a fifth column using Buddhism to serve shady political and economic interests.
(18) This could be a part of efforts against the penetration of western hostile forces.” While the Communist party considers itself an atheist organisation, authorities recognise five “official” religions: Buddhism , Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, and Taoism.
(19) First, the martial arts are influenced by Oriental styles of thinking such as Taoism and Zen Buddhism that are difficult to grasp from a Western positivist point of view.
(20) Asian religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism, are under-represented and funding is a major issue in preventing their equal access, it said.
Deva
Definition:
(n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.
Example Sentences:
(1) The league looks more preposterous still, however, if you simply ignore Muresul Deva for a moment.
(2) Tory MEP Nirj Deva was one of several deputies to subject Mr Nielson to hostile questioning.
(3) Nirj Deva, number two on the Conservative list, was confident he had kept his own seat along with party colleague and Tory Eurosceptic torchbearer Daniel Hannan, but wouldn't be drawn any further on how many of its five MEPs the party could salvage.
(4) Terrorism made for a dissonant theme on a night filled with several upbeat music and dance performances by Indian choreographer Prabu Deva and Signature, the dance group known for competing on Britain’s Got Talent.
(5) Symphony Environmental Technologies, the largest manufacturer of oxo-degradable bags, counts the Tory MEP Nirj Deva as chairman of its board , the former Tory MP Michael Stephen as its deputy chairman , and the ex-MEP and chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in parliament, Lord Callanan, as its consultant .
(6) There will be at least 10 – maybe more – Tory MPs from ethnic minorities, which doesn't sound a lot until you remember that between 1906, when Sir Mancherjee Bhownaggree lost his seat, and 1992, when Nirj Deva won, every Tory MP was white and almost all of them male.
(7) Photograph: Adam Scourfield Perry’s portraits include those of Alex White, a transgender man; a reality-TV presenter, Rylan Clark; Veronica Devas, the partner of an Alzheimer’s ambassador, and Melanie Cohen, a plus-size beauty contestant.
(8) Within the highly polluted area of the Committee for medical valuation of work ability--Deva, with 186,563 inhabitants out of which 73,046 wage earners (43% of them in industry), the percentage of disabled persons (through chronic respiratory diseases except tuberculosis) is 8%.
(9) "Deva Stadium, the home ground of Chester City, straddles two countries," writes Graham Clayton.
(10) In a 16-team league, with two points awarded for a win and one for a draw, Muresul Deva took first place - and promotion to Divizia B, with 38 points, while Minerul Ghelar and Minerul Aninoasa were relegated in the bottom two spots with 29 and 28 points respectively.
(11) This article describes the surgery of tropical pancreatitis as practiced in a region of high incidence, based on the experience at 2 centers: the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Proctology, Government General Hospital, Madras, Tamilnadu (a tertiary-care referral unit) where 52 patients were diagnosed and 40 were operated on between 1982 and 1987; and the Department of Gastroenterology, Deva Matha Hospital, Koothattukulam (a specialized center located in the main endemic area of Kerala), where 116 patients were diagnosed and 33 operated on between 1983 and 1988.
(12) DRIBBLING ACROSS THE EQUATOR "The Deva Stadium, the ground of Chester City, straddles two countries," wrote Graham Clayton a few weeks ago .
(13) A comparison is performed between the figures of Tb and of non-Tb disease cases hospitalized in the Pneumophysiology Department, District Hospital, Deva (27.6% non-Tb diseases) from 1987 to 1991.