vihara
Americannoun
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a meeting place of Buddhist monks.
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a Buddhist monastery.
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Also called Brahma Vihara. (initial capital letter) one of the four states of mind, namely love, compassion, sympathetic gladness, and equanimity, to be developed by every Buddhist.
Etymology
Origin of vihara
First recorded in 1875–80, vihara is from the Sanskrit word vihāra
Example Sentences
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Further, at the place where the discussion took place, they reared a vihara rather more than sixty cubits high, having in it an image of Buddha in a sitting posture.
A noted vihara in the suburbs of Sravasti, erected in a park which Anatha-pindika bought of prince Jeta, the son of Prasenajit.
After going ten yojanas he found a vihara, named "The Wilderness,"—a place where Buddha had dwelt, and where there are monks now.
In the city there has been reared also the vihara of Buddha's tooth, on which, as well as on the other, the seven precious substances have been employed.
Four le to the north-west of the vihara there is a grove called "The Getting of Eyes."
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