How to Use Buddha in a Sentence
Buddha
noun-
Their 1973 signing to Buddha Records gave them a fresh start.
— Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024 -
Steve and my friend Buddha, who worked as a kind of assistant, came up to escort me down.
— David Browne, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Spa music played as water flowed on a Buddha screen saver.
— Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023 -
Then follow Jesus, Buddha or live your life nobly and humbly.
— Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 June 2024 -
The true purpose of the Buddha Dharma is to awaken us to our Buddha-nature.
— Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023 -
Life-sized statues of Buddha and Ganesh, the Indian god of new beginnings, ring the room.
— Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023 -
This massive Buddha is covered from head to toe (all 46 meters) in gold leaf and is one of the largest Buddha statues in the world.
— Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Kim, 56, wore a peach-colored kaftan decorated with a print of the Buddha.
— Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023 -
Mike recommends the new reissue of the Buddha Machine music box from FM3.
— WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023 -
Another piece of art, made of stone in the seventh century and named Head of Buddha, will also be returned.
— Maysoon Khan, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023 -
Sun Wukong, is a trickster archetype who becomes immortal but rebels against Buddha.
— Aja Romano, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024 -
Then came Bernardo, who one summer in Rome offered me Little Buddha.
— Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2023 -
From the weathered woods on the steps to a Buddha statue in the middle of a garden, the place delivers Far East charm without losing any of its Caribbean core.
— Demarco Williams, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024 -
In the whole Mogao Caves area, only the icons of Buddha and bodhisattvas maintained their dignity and self-possession.
— Ian Johnson, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024 -
Another centuries-old object—a two-foot-tall Buddha statue found in the ancient Egyptian port city of Berenike—is the first of its kind ever found west of Afghanistan.
— Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023 -
The Sanskrit inscription, which was found near the Buddha’s head barely half an hour later, seems to have a different origin.
— Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024 -
The piece, probably the centerpiece of a Buddhist temple, shows the Buddha as a young man with an athletic build, seated with his legs crossed and a crown and halo atop his head.
— Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023 -
The scene oozes tranquility: Buddha heads dot the property.
— Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Afterall, this floating ice shelf is comprised of snow that dropped before the rise and fall of Rome, before Jesus or the Buddha were born, before the invention of the alphabet.
— Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 Feb. 2024 -
Learning about the Buddha’s Middle Way, a way of life that recognizes and threads the extremes of asceticism and hedonism, provides a way of living life in balance.
— Mitch Hendrickson, The Conversation, 29 July 2024 -
Around twenty-five hundred years ago, an Indian prince awoke to the suffering of other beings and, long story short, became the Buddha.
— The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022 -
Sages from Gautama Buddha to Jeremy Bentham have encouraged us to aim at the welfare of all sentient creatures.
— Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Chefs will also be serving Buddha’s Delight, a traditional meal that cleanses the soul and spirit.
— Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2024 -
The piece depicts the statue laying on her side with her head cupped in one hand, one foot flexed, the pose alluding to depictions of the Buddha during his final days before reaching parinirvana.
— Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023 -
Polonnaruwa, a town in central Sri Lanka, has temple caves and a huge reclining Buddha, as well as ruins of a 12th-century capital city that once stood on the land.
— Niall Causer, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024 -
The Buddha’s first sermon also described the Middle Way: a balance between the extremes of asceticism and indulgence.
— Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024 -
Inside, a seated idol of the Buddha, its face illuminated by light streaming in from above, projected an air of serenity and hope.
— Prasad Ramamurthy, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024 -
The book Buddha Takes the Mound delivers an engaging and sophisticated account of Buddhism’s worldview through the prism of baseball.
— Big Think, 24 June 2024 -
The burglar appears to have targeted the statue specifically, as none of the other 200 artifacts that surrounded the Buddha in the outdoor space are missing.
— Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023 -
While this wasn’t ideal, Buddha says opportunities can always be found in challenges with the right perspective.
— Sixteen Ramos, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
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