Sentence examples for official buddhist from inspiring English sources

It had 151 members, who were elected by village headmen or chosen by the king and the country's official Buddhist monastic order.

If, having explored the Four Noble Truths, you want to adopt them yourself then you may want to find yourself a Buddhist teacher or even "go for refuge" and become an official Buddhist.

The October attacks were organised and carried out by local Arakanese political party officials, Buddhist monks and ordinary Arakanese, but often directly supported by state security forces.

There, around a stone tablet some five feet high with a rock balanced on the top of it, the visitor will see South Korean officials, Buddhist monks and members of civic groups offering their veneration.

The official Tibetan Buddhist canon was closed in the 13th century.

The official Tibetan Buddhist canon was closed in the 13th century; it consisted of two parts, the Kanjur ("Translated Word," teachings or reputed teachings of the Buddhas themselves) and the Tanjur ("Translated Treatises," mainly commentaries by Indian teachers).

In recent years, the violence against the Rohingya carried out by state officials and Buddhist extremists has included rape, arson, shootings, beatings and torture.

The Hindu and Buddhist official orders are really both.

Even in business documents and official letters the Buddhist background is usually not difficult to discern.

These sectarian rivalries continued until the Song dynasty, when a more inclusive form of Zen became associated with almost all of the official state-sponsored Buddhist monasteries.

As a naughty adolescent in the 1950s who enjoyed climbing Xi'an's old city walls and getting into mischief, Kang is exiled by his parents to Silent Garden, the home of his grandfather, a senior Buddhist official.