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
  • Then came Bernardo, who one summer in Rome offered me Little Buddha.
    Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Its welcoming design includes a seven-foot tall statue of Buddha presiding over the dining room.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
  • Despite the gallery being home to hundreds of valuable artifacts, those pieces were ignored in favor of the Buddha statue, the only item targeted during the heist, which lasted a total of 25 minutes.
    Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Another is Buddha’s birthday, May 23, when monks will carry sacred relics of Buddha on chariots, and people will decorate their homes with flowers and donate to those in need.
    Hari Kumar, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • On a visit to a vast monastery in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, known for a towering Buddha statue gilded in gold, his father brought him and his twin brother into a room where they and seven other boys were given a secret test.
    David Pierson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • For chef Buddha Lo, working late hours under stressful conditions in restaurant kitchens has made the transition to fatherhood a little easier.
    Sonal Dutt, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The adaptation dispenses with some of Coetzee’s plot—Michael’s detached Buddha nature no longer attracts an acolyte, for instance—but preserves the book’s dreamlike quality.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The piece, purchased from a Madison Avenue gallerist, features a large Buddha surrounded by intricate vignettes depicting his life, in unalloyed copper with traces of gilding.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024

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