Example sentences for: buddhas

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

  • 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.

  • According to the Chinese media, the karmapa left behind a letter saying he was going abroad "to get the musical instruments of the Buddhist mass and the black hats that have been used by the previous living Buddhas."

  • 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.

  • The showstoppers at Longmen, carved in the years 680 and 675, respectively, are the Cave of Ten Thousand Buddhas (Wanfodong), with 15,000 little Buddhas carved into its niches, and the Honoring Ancestors Cave (Juxianshiku), constructed at the behest of Tang Empress Wu.

  • 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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