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bonze

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bonze  (bnz)
n.
A Buddhist monk, especially of China, Japan, or nearby countries.
[French, from Portuguese bonzo, from Japanese bons : bon, ordinary (from Middle Chinese buan, fhan) + s, monk (from Middle Chinese sng, from Sanskrit sagha, collection, brotherhood of monks, from sahanti, sagha-, to put together : sam, together; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots + hanti, he strikes; see gwhen- in Indo-European roots).]


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On the second dav the road rose steeply to a grass spur above the forest; and it was here, about sunset, that they came across an aged lama - but they called him a bonze - sitting cross-legged above a mysterious chart held down by stones, which he was explaining to a young man, evidently a neophyte, of singular, though unwashen, beauty.
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