roshi
[ roh-shee ]
noun
the religious leader of a group of Zen Buddhists.
Origin of roshi
1< Japn rōshi
Words Nearby roshi
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How to use roshi in a sentence
Those words were said by Joshu Sasaki roshi, who ordained Leonard Cohen as a Zen monk in 1996.
roshi, who recently passed on at 107, was in his late 90s when he said it.
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