anti-Buddhist
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a word derived from
Buddhism.
Buddhismnouna religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Myanmar (Burma), Japan, Tibet, and parts of Southeast Asia, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths to which one is otherwise subject.
Example Sentences
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If I support the Rohingyas and deplore the Mayanmar persecution of them, it doesn’t make me anti-Buddhist.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2019
Although the defendants are all former friends or classmates of his, Khanh has insisted on the trial to discourage further coups and to satisfy Vietnamese Buddhists, who felt the "coupette" that failed was essentially anti-Buddhist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Actually, none of the three regimes were anti-Buddhist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was a nightmarish repetition of the immolations of 1963, when eight Buddhists burned themselves to death protesting President Ngo Dinh Diem's anti-Buddhist repressions.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But he must have outgrown his anti-Buddhist prejudices, for in 730 the seventh collection of the Tripitaka was made under his auspices.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot