Sentence examples for Buddhistic from inspiring English sources

Erik Chisholm, the author of a book on the Janacek operas, aptly describes this work as "an almost Buddhistic hymn in praise of the basic unity of all living creatures".

Schopenhauer's almost Buddhistic view of the world as a place of unfathomable darkness and suffering melded completely with Wagner's own changing perceptions.

Bill presents himself with a buddhistic smile, barely hiding an equally willful and intense personality.

Actually, Mr. Izu is a reverent and buddhistic humanist with layered memories and ideas.

Although the Watarai and Yoshida schools were thus free of Buddhistic theories, the influence of Chinese thought was still present.

Symbol structures and pictorial representations are brought into connection with dogma and theological statements—e.g., the Buddhistic karma-samsara (law of cause and effect and reincarnation) theory and the bodhisattva (buddha-to-be) theory or the Christian teaching of the Last Judgment, punishment of sin, hell and purgatory, and eternal reward (Paradise).

Ise, or Watarai, Shintō was the first theoretical school of anti-Buddhistic Shintō in that it attempted to exclude Buddhist accretions and also tried to formulate a pure Japanese version.

Another pre-Buddhistic system of philosophy, the Charvaka, or the Lokayata, is one of the earliest materialistic schools of philosophy.The name Charvaka is traced back to one Charvaka, supposed to have been one of the great teachers of the school.

Shot through with Schopenhauerian pessimism and quasi-Buddhistic ideas of renunciation, Tristan deals with a love so intense that the phenomenal world cannot contain it.

That meant a shift from optimism to pessimism, from a belief that art and social action could make for a better world to a near-Buddhistic despair that life was an unending chain of suffering.

Translation of religious texts in particular Buddhistic texts in the case of Mongolian, Islamic (Arabic and Persian) in that of Turkic languages played a great role in transmitting foreign vocabulary to Altaic languages.