bonze

Examples

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• The bonzes, however, claim that most people are unable to uphold these precepts on a regular basis.

  Academic text (2003)

• Xavier implies that the bonzes regard hell as if it were purgatory.

  Academic text (2003)

• The people thus do it, taking from them example, saying that if the bonzes do it, they will do it as well.

  Academic text (2003)

• What he refuses to acknowledge is that the sexual life of the bonzes might mirror, rather than dictate, the mores of the society at large.

  Academic text (2003)

• Sodomy, Xavier insists, is a common practice precisely because of the influence of the bonzes:

  Academic text (2003)

• Xavier deplores the bonzes even more for what he deems their moral laxity.

  Academic text (2003)

• Xavier is actually less judgmental about the native religion itself than what he ostensibly perceives as an economic exploitation of the people by the bonzes.

  Academic text (2003)

• In his judgment, the bonzes (Buddhist monks) are avaricious, parasitical, and hypocritical.

  Academic text (2003)

• What Xavier does not notice, or perhaps ignores as irrelevant to his specific goal of conversion, is that the kind of sexual relations the samurai allow between their sons and the bonzes is integral to their own military ethos.

  Academic text (2003)

• In Japan, many people visit the temple to listen to the teachings of the bonze.

Synonyms

M

monk

vsbonze

309 3.2

A man who lives in a religious community and spends his life praying and working

is a Buddhist cleric specific to East Asian traditions

L

lama

vsbonze

• Specialized

4 7.5

A monk in Tibetan Buddhism who teaches and guides people

is a Buddhist cleric specific to East Asian traditions

Surface Forms

Etymology