Example sentences for: buddhas

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

  • One of the most impressive of these is the Mahaboudha, or Temple of the Thousand Buddhas, which was erected in the 16th century.

  • 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."

  • 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).

  • As you reach the top of the show, you come across a parade of twenty or so placid Buddhas meditating under Wright's sky-lit dome.


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