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

- fourth-largest religion, with almost 500 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...
- unconventional figure. In spite of this, most Zen schools also promote traditional Buddhist practices like chanting, precepts, walking meditation, rituals, monasticism...
- The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam...
- 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...
- (which included many Vajrayāna elements). It thus preserves many Indian Buddhist tantric practices of the post-Gupta early medieval period (500–1200 CE)...
- A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism. They include the structures called vihara, chaitya...
- Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and...
- Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. It consists of a temporal...
- first established in ****an in the 6th century CE. Most of the ****anese Buddhists belong to new schools of Buddhism which were established in the Kamakura...