Buddhist scripture
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- noun
- /ˈbʊdɪst ˈskrɪpʧər/
:
escritura budista
- Many scholars study the Buddhist scripture to understand its philosophical teachings and their impact on Eastern thought.
Examples
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As the novel goes, Tripitaka used to be Buddha's first disciple, and he had cultivated himself as a monk for ten lives in the mortal world before his journey to India for Buddhist scriptures.
Academic text (2012) -
And please don't quote Buddhist scripture to me, all of which were written several hundred years after the historical Gautama Buddha's death.
Blog text (7) -
Shira Coffee, your point about respecting Buddhist scriptures is well taken.
Blog text (7) -
Nevertheless, the Buddha of the Buddhist scriptures has very tenuous links with the historical figure whom they claim for their inspiration.
Blog text (7) -
Examples include parts of the Koran and several key Tibetan Buddhist scriptures (Hastings 1991).
Academic text (1990) -
"The Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist scriptures all urge physicians to care for the poor, and the great majority of religious physicians describe their practice of medicine as a calling.
Blog text (22) -
After countless ordeals and 14 years on the road, they arrive at the Buddhist Heaven, obtain the Buddhist scriptures, and are appointed to celestial positions.
Academic text (2012) -
For visitors seeking to connect to Seoul's past, there’s the Bongeunsa Temple, built in 794 and home to thousands of Buddhist scriptures.
Blog text (6) -
"A sutra was a Buddhist scripture, written in prose and verse, parables and lectures, containing the teachings of Sakyamuni, the historical Buddha who lived in India approximately a thousand years before.
Fiction book (2002) -
The local monastery has several ancient copies of the Buddhist scripture that teach the principles of compassion and mindfulness.
Synonyms
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Sacred writings a religion accepts as true and important, like the Bible or Quran
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A short rule or saying from Indian religious teachings
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A book or writing that people treat as holy in a religion
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A holy text that a religion treats as true and that guides people's lives
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A Buddhist teaching text often from the Pali Canon said to come from the Buddha
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Buddhist' specifies the religious affiliation and 'scripture' denotes a holy text, so together they clearly mean a sacred text of Buddhism. This noun + noun semantic combination is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Buddhist scripture names the sacred writings that record the Buddha's teachings. Monks long ago wrote these words on scrolls and read them in temples, treating the texts as guides for belief and life. So, Buddhist scripture means 'a sacred text of Buddhism'.