Definition of BUDDHIST. Meaning of BUDDHIST. Synonyms of BUDDHIST

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Definition of BUDDHIST

Buddhist
Buddhist Bud"dhist, n. One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
Buddhist
Buddhist Bud"dhist, a. Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.

Meaning of BUDDHIST from wikipedia

- world's fourth-largest religion, with over 520 million followers, known as Buddhists, who comprise seven percent of the global po****tion. It arose in the...
- there are three main Buddhist Canons: the Pāli Canon of the Theravāda tradition, the Chinese Buddhist Canon used in East Asian Buddhist tradition, and the...
- A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism. They include the structures called vihara, chaitya...
- unconventional figure. In spite of this, most Zen schools also promote traditional Buddhist practices like chanting, precepts, rituals, monasticism and scriptural...
- The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam...
- Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and...
- Pāli Canon for over two millennia. The Pāli Canon is the most complete Buddhist canon surviving in a classical Indian language, Pāli, which serves as the...
- Buddhist philosophy is the ancient Indian philosophical system that developed within the religio-philosophical tradition of Buddhism. It comprises all...
- institutional and doctrinal divisions of Buddhism which are the teachings off buddhist texts. The schools of Buddhism have existed from ancient times up to the...
- notable Buddhists, encomp****ing all the major branches of the religion (i.e. in Buddhism), and including interdenominational and eclectic Buddhist practitioners...