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
- : 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.
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