The phrase "a small buddhist" is correct and usable in written English, although "Buddhist" should be capitalized.
You can use it to describe a person who practices Buddhism and is small in stature or perhaps in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "In the quiet temple, a small Buddhist sat in meditation, radiating peace and tranquility."
Alternatives: "a petite Buddhist" or "a little Buddhist".
Inside the house, a family will usually maintain a small Buddhist shrine in a corner.
The only decorations are a small Buddhist altar and two calendars showing tourist scenes from Cambodia.
After a small Buddhist prayer ceremony, Slowinski's body was cremated in Myanmar.
It also has a small Buddhist monastery, or gompa, and a Swiss-owned factory that produces yak cheese.
One of these third-party entities was registered in Kalmikia, a small Buddhist republic in southern Russia.
Rossi & Rossi of London and Hong Kong had no trouble in disposing of a small Buddhist high relief from present-day Pakistan.
The conference is sponsored by the Naropa Institute, a small, Buddhist-oriented college above some shops on the second floor of a building in downtown Boulder.
Among the Funan-Chenla sculptures are a few Buddhist icons executed in sandstone, markedly less sensuous than the Hindu figures and close to the styles of Dvaravati (see above Thailand and Laos), though a number of small Buddhist bronzes representing bodhisattvas approach the delicacy of the Hindu work.
They were both living near the top of the mountain: Bob in a cabin where he wrote about Frost and Melville and drove down the road to teach his classes at Claremont McKenna College; Cohen in a small Zen Buddhist monastery, where he was an ordained monk.
Some Muslim groups have voiced their opposition, as have small Buddhist organizations.
Between the 6th and 9th centuries the Mon established several small Buddhist kingdoms within the area encompassed by present-day southern Myanmar and central Thailand.
