(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.
Stupa
Definition:
(n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
(n.) See 1st Stupe.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the area between Kabul and Peshawar, one fifth-century Chinese traveller counted no fewer than 2,400 such shrines – as well as a scattering of well-planned classical cities, acropoli, amphitheatres and stupas .
(2) The stupa of the pagoda burned golden until the sun fell rapidly into the jungle.
(3) A Buddhist stupa – commemorative monument – inside a monastery at Mes Aynak.
(4) These ranged from four fortified monasteries, a Zoroastrian fire temple and several Buddhist stupas (commemorative monuments), through ancient copper working, smelting workshops, miners habitations and a mint, as well as two small forts and a citadel.
(5) At the top we dived into a succession of monastic complexes where lines of sitting Buddha statues faced onto small slate stupas with classical columns covered with plastic sheeting.