(a.) Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many have called for the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader revered by many Tibetans.
(2) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
(3) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(4) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
(5) The rioting in Lashio started on Tuesday after reports that a Muslim man had splashed petrol on a Buddhist woman and set her on fire.
(6) The chapel is identified by the school as a Christian church but also hosts Hindu services and has been used for Buddhist meditations.
(7) But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city's Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.
(8) We found out that she’s a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist.
(9) According to Buddhist folklore, it blooms only once every 3,000 years; someone feared it would encourage superstition.
(10) Both Buddhist monks and police can be seen through much of the footage – the monks often taking part in the violence, the police watching immobile as it progresses.
(11) The latter rivalry may play an important role in social relations within and among Buddhist monasteries.
(12) The only souls around are a small group of Buddhist pilgrims, lighting incense at the rear of the spectacular Khmer temple.
(13) They have been persecuted for years by the government and nationalist Buddhists.
(14) His remark should be seen in the context of the tension between Buddhists and Muslims after serious violence in south-western Rakhine (Arakan) state in 2012 , and last year in Meiktila , a city in central Burma, which claimed more than 200 lives and drove tens of thousands from their homes.
(15) There's either a complete lack of capacity or a failure of political will because Buddhist monks are involved."
(16) This article provides a cultural interpretation of female prostitution in contemporary lowland Buddhist Thai society.
(17) The actor was asked about recent cases of self-immolation by Tibetan Buddhist monks protesting against China .
(18) Given the unusual grandeur of the Buddhist temples and palaces in the settlement, Mes Aynak might once have been a theocracy like Tibet, with the monks exploiting the copper reserves as a source of power and profit, not unlike the Cistercian monks who dominated the pre-industrial economy in many parts of medieval France and England.
(19) A proverb of the Buddhist religion often quoted by physicist Richard Feynman encapsulates the whole discussion, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
(20) After living in a refugee camp and two years as a Buddhist monk, he came to the UK in 1987.
Religionist
Definition:
(n.) One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a reminder that the vast proportion of casualties of terrorism are Muslims killed by co-religionists.
(2) The religionists haven't helped themselves, though; surely the new atheism is in part a reaction to the rise of, say, Islamic extremism?
(3) The expressed intention of his fatwa was to defend and strengthen the clergy, and one of its effects in Britain has been to create a kind of pseudo-clergy, a class of Islamist intellectuals and militants who presume to speak not just for their co-religionists in Britain but 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide.
(4) The US backed prime minister Nouri al-Maliki opted to instead privilege his Shia co-religionists and later, particularly after US forces withdrew in 2011, himself.
(5) Muslims the world over, which Isis views (wrongly) as a sea of potential recruits, could be forgiven for viewing the Republican rhetoric as a declaration of holy war against their co-religionists.
(6) Cairo's Al-Ahram newspaper chided his "politically motivated" 1979 edict forbidding Egyptian Christians from visiting co-religionists in Jerusalem.
(7) And if it has been Hezbollah's overt intervention in the fighting in Qusair that has set the alarm bells ringing ever more loudly, it is worth noting that the Hezbollah's interest in Syria has less to do with the fate of its Alawite co-religionists and everything to do with its own survival and interests.
(8) Other minority groups, such as Kurds, Alawis and Christians, have been mostly left to their own devices or are helped by co-religionists.
(9) As leaders and senior figures of faith communities, we urge our co-religionists and others to think about the implications of a Leave vote for the things about which we are most passionate.
(10) [Christians] are seen as legitimate targets for what they perceive as actions of their co-religionists.
(11) During the Iran-Iraq war , the Ba'athist government feared that Iraqi Shias would sympathise with their co-religionists in Iran and unleashed waves of repression against them.
(12) They add: “As leaders and senior figures of faith communities, we urge our co-religionists and others to think about the implications of a Leave vote for the things about which we are most passionate.
(13) Baroness Cumberlege is treasured by co-religionists as "a distinguished Catholic politician".
(14) In disparaging the potential "bad deal" with Iran, Netanyahu went beyond mere criticism and said to his co-religionists: We are the Jewish state.
(15) To his supporters, whose numbers peaked in the few years after the attacks of 11 September 2001 in America that he masterminded, he was a visionary leader fighting both western aggression against Muslims and his co-religionists' lack of faith and rigour.