Example sentences for: buddhas

How can you use “buddhas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • These include a number of other Buddhas, to be approached for favor through meditation, and saint-like Bodhisattvas who achieved enlightenment but remained active to help humankind find the right path.

  • In Cave No. 16 are three holes pierced through the outer wall, showing the original positions of three Buddhas appropriated by foreign collectors; tour guides here say they are now in New York’s Metropolitan Museum.

  • Upstairs are a couple of rooms of Socialist Realism, with ubiquitous Maos--first, youthfully slender in front of a traditionally rendered mountain, then putting on weight just like those Buddhas.

  • The Cave of Ten Thousand Buddhas is the name of Cave No. 15; the figures in this cave are arranged in a pigeonhole grid pattern.

  • In the Religion and Festivals section, for example, one finds among pictures of Buddhas and Shinto deities (see Ogata Korin, Gods of Wind and Thunder ) a large ink-brushed hanging scroll depicting nothing but vegetables (Ito Jakuchu, Vegetable parinirvana , circa 1780).


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