buddha
has definitions from the fields of religion,Buddhism
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[ noun ] (religion,Buddhism) founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)
Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)First_of_all , the six figures of the Buddha you heisted - four Siamese heads , a black obsidian statuette in the earth touching position , and a large brass figure of the Dying_Buddha on a teakwood base . In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked_up in Bombay , and occasionally , to make merit , my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a_few pennies in its lap . The beautiful , the satisfying part of his disintegration , however , was the masterly way the Buddha polished him off . |
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[ noun ] (religion) one who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment
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