| 释义 |
bonze|bɒnz|
Forms: 6 bonso, 7 boze, pl. bosses, 7–8 bonzee, 7– bonze.
[prob. a. F. bonze, ad. Pg. bonzo (early mod.L. bonzus, bonzius); according to Col. Yule prob. ad. Japanese bonzô or bonzi, ad. Chinese fan seng ‘religious person’, or of Jap. bo-zi, ad. Ch. fă-sze ‘teacher of the law’. Some of the earlier Eng. forms appear to represent the Japanese word directly.]
A term applied by Europeans to the Buddhist clergy of Japan, and sometimes of China, and adjacent countries.
[1552Xavier Epist. V. xvii. (1667) (Y.) Erubescunt enim et confunduntur Bonzii.] 1588Parke Hist. China 379 (Y.) They haue amongst them [in Japan] many priests of their Idols whom they do call Bonsos, of the which there be great couents. a1590Exct. Treat. China in Hakluyt II. 580 In China called Cen, but with us at Japon are named Bonzi. 1618Cocks Diary II. 75 (Y.) There is 300 boze (or pagon pristes). Ibid. I. 143 Bosses. 1688New Hist. China 46 In these Temples..Bonzes have their Habitations. 1713Guardian No. 3 (1756) I. 20 The Bonzes of China have books written by the disciples of Fo-he. 1756Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. I. 60 The absurd tricks, or destructive bigotry of the bonzees [of China]. 1878M. E. Herbert tr. Hubner's Ramble ii. ii. 249 A bonze appears on the threshold of the temple. |