19 examples of bhikshus in sentences

When stranger bhikshus arrive at one of them, their wants are supplied for three days, after which they are told to find a resting-place for themselves.

[Footnote 1: Bhikshu is the name for a monk as "living by alms," a mendicant.

All bhikshus call themselves Sramans.

[Footnote 5: The bhikshunis are the female monks or nuns, subject to the same rules as the bhikshus, and also to special ordinances of restraint.]

Three or four li east from this place there is a tope commemorating the following occurrence: A hundred years after the pari-nirvâna of Buddha, some Bhikshus of Vaisâlî went wrong in the matter of the disciplinary rules in ten particulars, and appealed for their justification to what they said were the words of Buddha.

Hereupon the Arhats and Bhikshus observant of the rules, to the number in all of seven hundred monks, examined afresh and collated the collection of disciplinary books .

There also resides in this monastery a Brahman teacher, whose name also is Mañjusrî, whom the Shamans of greatest virtue in the kingdom, and the mahâyâna Bhikshus honor and look up to.

In the New City -hien bought incense-sticks, flowers, oil and lamps, and hired two bhikshus, long resident at the place, to carry them to the peak.

Formerly there was a bhikshu, who, as he walked backwards and forwards upon it, thought with himself:"This body is impermanent, a thing of bitterness and vanity, and which cannot be looked on as pure.

" Soon after this a bhikshu, pursuing his regular course of begging his food, entered the gate of the place.

As the bhikshu looked on, there came to him the thought of the impermanence, the painful suffering and inanity of this body, and how it is but as a bubble and as foam; and instantly he attained to Arhatship.

There was a look of joyful satisfaction, however, in the bhikshu's countenance.

In the middle of the caldron there rose up a lotus flower, with the bhikshu seated on it.

The king thereupon followed them, and entered the naraka, when the bhikshu preached the Law to him, and he believed, and was made free.

As a sequel to this, he informed the monks of what had been in his mind, and desired them to make a regulation that from that day forth the king should not be allowed to enter the treasury and see what it contained, and that no bhikshu should enter it till after he had been in orders for a period of full forty years.

When he drew near his end, the king came to examine into the point; and having assembled the monks according to rule, asked whether the bhikshu had attained to the full degree of Wisdom.

Let us land the bhikshu and place him on some island-shore.

A patron of -hien, however, said to them, "If you land the bhikshu, you must at the same time land me; and if you do not, then you must kill me.

The king also reveres and believes the Law of Buddha, and honors the bhikshus."

19 examples of  bhikshus  in sentences