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bonze

/bonz/US // bɒnz //UK // (bɒnz) //

盂兰盆会,盂兰盆节,盂兰盆会议,盂兰盆地

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a Buddhist monk, especially of Japan or China.

Examples

  • A priest, or bonze, handed us some little tapers for us to light and offer to his divinity.

  • Over this pit is an armchair, to which the deceased bonze is fastened in full costume.

  • But one young bonze named "Lift-the-Kettle" (after a passage in the Sanscrit classics) had rigidly kept the rules.

  • In the eyes of the people Xavier was merely a new kind of bonze, and they listened to him with the greatest attention.

  • He was conducted by his bearers to the largest temple in the city, where a yellow-robed bonze was in waiting to receive him.