Buddhisms

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of Buddhism.
  Buddhism

  noun

  a 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.

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Possibly, also, besides the Southern and Northern Buddhisms, the Buddhism of Japan may be treated by itself and named Eastern Buddhism.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

We shall in this lecture attempt but two things: I. A summary of the process of thought by which the chief features of the Northern Buddhisms came into view.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Many students have asked what is the peculiar, the characteristic difference between the Buddhism of Japan and the other Buddhisms of the Asian continent.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The separatists began what may be called the Northern Buddhisms of Nepal, Tibet, China, Korea and Japan.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

In a word, this one of the many Buddhisms of Asia is vastly less a religion, in any real sense of the word, than a system of metaphysics.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

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