Example sentences for: buddhas

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Sha Tin is the site of the Monastery of 10,000 Buddhas, which looks down on a burgeoning town.

  • The Chinese Buddha statues here are notable for their variously proud, cheerful, or humble stances not to be seen in the Buddhas of Japanese temples.

  • 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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