Buddhistical
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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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Though a professed disciple of modern Brahmanism, he had deeply imbibed Buddhistical precepts and philosophy.
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Carson Jay Lee
But the passages to which he refers present no direct contradiction to those metaphysical subtleties by which the Buddhistical writers have carefully avoided whilst they closely approach the admission of belief in a deity.
From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Sir James Emerson Tennent
The prefatory note shows how permeated his mode of thought was at this time with Buddhistical theories....
From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard
It has generally been taken for granted that he died a Buddhist; he emphatically declared, during the last year of his life, that he subscribed to no Buddhistical tenets.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard