(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.
Sanskrit
Definition:
(n.) The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reason was that Hindu traditions were oraly transmitted and the records, written exclusively in Sanskrit, were incomplete.
(2) He talks of not of India but Bharat, a Sanskrit-origin word describing a Hindu civilisation.
(3) In brief, this paper is a review of Sanskrit literature for information on the origin and development of speech and language, speech production, normality of speech and language, and disorders of speech and language and their treatment.
(4) The information collected here is mainly from the Sanskrit texts written between 2000 B.C.
(5) I also deal with the theory of psychological medicine as stated in ancient Sanskrit texts.
(6) A notorious paper written in 1835 by Thomas Macaulay , commenting coolly that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia", called for all printing in Sanskrit and Arabic to be banned, and Hindu and Muslim religious schools outlawed.
(7) This paper aims at highlighting the knowledge of the Sanskrit scholars of ancient times in the field of speech and language pathology.
(8) Mucuna pruriens (Atmagupta, Sanskrit), which contains levodopa, was used in the treatment of Kampavata.
(9) Speaking as the proud host of Britain's most difficult quiz (Mondays on BBC Four etc etc), I watch our contestants – bespectacled, bejumpered, feverishly keen on Shostakovich symphonies or Sanskrit jokes – and I know that, confident in their priorities and passions, they look cool.
(10) Photograph: Alamy A chronicler from the time mentions that Humayun’s fort was built on the hallowed site of Indraprastha Indraprastha appears in one of India’s foundational Sanskrit epic poems, the Mahabharata , as the capital city established by its heroes, the Pandava brothers.
(11) The lectures were fascinating for they demonstrated many lines of kinship between ideas expressed in the ancient Sanskrit texts and ideas afloat still in the modern world.
(12) An attempt is made here to analyse the available drug recipes using this plant from Sanskrit literature in the light of modern scientific knowledge.
(13) The purpose is only to give a glimpse of the knowledge that the Sanskrit scholars of those times possessed.
(14) Tagore helped to choose the baby's name, which means "immortal" in Sanskrit.
(15) The village health culture includes curing practices from the Atharva-Veda (the most ancient Sanskritic literature), Ayurvedic Medicine, Unani Prophetic Medicine, and Western Biomedicine.
(16) This has been verified by spectrographically analyzing 109 Sanskrit sentences as spoken by ten Sanskrit speakers.
(17) The word itself is derived from the Sanskrit "to split", and refers to the split lentils and other pulses from which it is made.
(18) The concept of timing in speech as held by the ancient Sanskrit Scholars is described.
(19) Ashtanga is the focus (this is Mysore after all) but there’s a wide range of other classes to choose from, including hatha, shatkriya (cleansing), backbending and pranayama as well as instruction in Sanskrit and lessons in the yoga sutras.
(20) You don't need to learn yoga or Sanskrit or study any kind of ancient text to be part of Amma's religion, you just need to be able to receive a hug.