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Definition of Buddhist

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or supporting Buddhism. "Buddhist sculpture"

Definition of Buddhist

1. n. One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.

2. a. Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.

Definition of Buddhist

1. Adjective. of, relating to, or practicing Buddhism ¹

2. Noun. A practitioner of the religion and philosophy of Buddhism. ¹

3. Noun. A follower of the Indian religious and spiritual teacher, Buddha. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buddhist

Literary usage of Buddhist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The monuments of the great buddhist monarchs, Asoka and Kanishka, confronted him ... Throughout North-Western India he found buddhist convents and monks ..."

2. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"buddhist Priests live in Monasteries or Temples.—Governed by Abbots.—Description of buddhist ... The Class called To-ing much like the buddhist Priests. ..."

3. China and the Chinese: A General Description of the Country and Its by John Livingston Nevius (1869)
"Different Orders of buddhist Divinities.—Peculiarities of Buddhism as it exists ... buddhist Nunneries. BUDDHISM is emphatically the religion of China, ..."

4. The Christian Doctrine of Immortality by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1895)
"Professor Oldenberg, again, says that " if we are to indicate the precise point at which the goal is reached for the buddhist, we must not look to the entry ..."

5. Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality by Hutton Webster (1916)
"Since the adoption of the solar calendar in 1889 the wan phra has been superseded to a large extent for civil purposes by Sunday.3 The buddhist Sabbath is ..."

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