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non-Buddhist

  • a word derived from 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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The Indian, non-Buddhist art of the time, with its cults of nature and worship of the elements, was in many ways antithetical to the Buddhist spirit.

From New York Times May 11, 2020

The State Department’s ambassador on religious freedom this week said there had been a doubling down on the persecution of Burma’s non-Buddhist citizens.

From Washington Post May 31, 2018

A diagram published by the Tibetan government-in-exile places the Dalai Lama as the head both of Tibetan Buddhism and of Tibet’s non-Buddhist Bon religion.

From Newsweek

The egregious corruption of his regime angered Burma's small middle class, and when he established Buddhism as the state religion, the non-Buddhist 15% of the population was understandably outraged.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, Buddhist and non-Buddhist lecturers are publicly discoursing on Buddhism to large audiences in western countries.

From The Buddhist Catechism by Henry Steel Olcott

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