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
Actually, none of the three regimes were anti-Buddhist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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Then, to everyone's surprise, the supposedly anti-Buddhist congress adopted as its own program the Buddhist demands that Ky had already accepted in private.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It attacks, however, anti-Buddhist Confucianists such as Han-Yü and Chu-Hsi.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot