This influence was still more in evidence whenever a distinguished bonze accepted the Faith, an example of which occurred when the two most celebrated personages of that class came down from Kioto to Amaguchi for a public disputation.
Troubles occurred from time to time, but the number of neophytes increased daily, and Ricci, who up to that time had worn the dress of a bonze now discarded it and assumed the garb of a Chinese man of letters.
Tears and pleadings were alike useless, and finally one night as he was taking leave, the bonze told the maid that he had paid his last visit.
Kiyohimé then utterly forgetting all womanly delicacy, became so urgent that the bonze tore himself away and fled across the river.
Every bonze held in his hand a box filled with incense matches, one of which he lighted as soon as its predecessor was extinguished.
As soon as he was gone, the cunning oldbonze blew it out and sold it to the next comer.
The chief bonze mounted the theatre alone, and having made many violent gestures and exclamations, again descended, when the performances began.
An old bonze or priest of venerable aspect, with a long white beard, stood up, reciting some prayers in a low voice.
A week before this, a bose, bonze or conjurer, had predicted to the king that this tempest was to come.
He had been a bonze himself in his youth but left the cloister for the adventurous career which conducted him to the throne.
Shih-yin could not restrain his annoyance; and hastily pressing his daughter closer to him, he was intent upon going in, when the bonze pointed his hand at him, and burst out in a loud fit of laughter.
One day, while it lamented its lot, it suddenly caught sight, at a great distance, of a Buddhist bonze and of a Taoist priest coming towards that direction.
The account of these circumstances," thebonze ventured to reply, "is enough to make you laugh!
As soon as they reached Shih-yin's door, and they perceived him with Ying Lien in his arms, the Bonze began to weep aloud.
Even in the days when the regions of the Ebisu or barbarians (Yezo) extended far southward upon the main island, the missionary bonze was conspicuous by his absence among these people.
When bidding me farewell for ever on the steamer which took me back to my fatherland, the good old Bonze tried to console me for my disappointments.
I thought I heard the familiar voice of the Bonze interrupting my reflections, and repeating an often used argument of his in his discussions with me.
In short, I begged my friend the Bonze to spare me his protests, and thus the unpleasantness of breaking with him for ever.
That night all the members of the Lao-tsze sect inhabiting prisons under the jurisdiction of the Principal Bonze were decapitated, and the P.
The witnesses, therefore, advised the Bonze to ascertain the residences of the most ferocious tigers in his diocese, and to wait upon them personally, in the hope of thus discovering what he sought.
The unfortunate heretics would have been only too thankful to prolong the Emperor's life indefinitely in consideration of securing peace for their own, but they could only inform the Bonze of the general tradition of their sect.
Thinking so venerable a personage likely to have at least a glimmering of the great secret, the Bonze hurried to his bedside.
A bonze asserts that Fo is a God,-that he was foretold by fakirs, that he was born of a white elephant, and that everybonze can by certain grimaces make a Fo.
The Bonze learnt how to cultivate it, and speedily introduced it into his own country, where it proved such a blessing, that the inhabitants worshipped the mouse as a god, under the name of Daikoku-sama.
One day, however, a Bonze observed a mouse hiding some Rice and other grains in a corner.
At last he felt a light touch on his shoulder; he rose; a young bonze stood beside him; he walked away without a word.
The young bonze paused, signed to Nagato to remain where he was, and retired.
A young bonze ran forward with a golden cup; but the sovereign dismissed him with a sign, and advancing her lips, swallowed the water held in the hollow of her hand, then rose and shook her fingers.
Sometimes a bonze would respectfully ask leave to copy one of the poems stowed away in her basket.
Up to this," she laughed, "he's become a bonze twice.
Tai-yü also smiled while suggesting: The broom, with which the bonze sweepeth the hill, is sunk in snow.
I keep on, just for a laugh, telling people the whole day long that when the bonze T'ang was fetching the canons, a white horse came and carried him!
It turned out to be, in fact, a mangy-headed bonze and a hobbling Taoist priest.
Forthwith appeared the head-bonze Chang, a stick of incense in hand; his cloak thrown over his shoulders.
The unexpected visit of the bonzeand Taoist priest rendered, however, superfluous the services of the various male attendants, and Chia-yün had therefore to go again and oversee the men planting the trees.
The Bonze Shunkwan mounted to a high place; His eye wandered north, south, east and west.
Then the great Bonze in his meditation remembered An ancient song: "The wind scattered a flower at Buddha's feet; A boulder fell and crushed the fish of the pool.
The result was that months went by and the bonze still remained with him as his guest.
One day a fairy in the disguise of a bonze called upon him.
At length the day came when the bonze announced that he must proceed upon his journey.
The bonze replied that this was a peculiar case, calling for special treatment.
IV THE FAIRY BONZE In a certain well-known and populous city in one of the north-western provinces of China, there once resided a man of the name of Meng.
A few months after the good bonze had left them, a series of disasters fell with crushing effect upon the house of Meng.
The bonze is generous, and his words are reasonable," said another.
At which the bonze said, "Cannot the heavenly eyes of the great prince see that the poor creature is suffering from such violent language?
Whereupon the bonze fell upon his knees and accused the innkeeper of attacking the idol and leading a mob to destroy the monastery.
Perceiving his advantage, the bonze followed it up.
At the word alms the eyes of the bonze sparkled with delight, and having lifted his lantern so as to get a full view of Nicholas, he said to the watchman, "Thou rascal!
Then sending for a body of yah-yu, he ordered them to take the bonze and his assistants to the great prison, to await a trial; after which they returned to the palace.
This bonze had been the leading figure in an extraordinary romance of real life.
But Kiyomori took care that a copy of the bonze Saiko's confession, extracted under torture and fully incriminating his Majesty, should come into the Imperial hands.
Just at that time the wife of a man who combined the occupations of bonze and umbrella-maker, bore a son, and the two children were surreptitiously exchanged.
He is further said to have disguised himself as an itinerent bonze and to have travelled about the provinces, observing the state of the people and learning their complaints.
Then Taitsu employed a Buddhist priest, but the character of this bonze having been detected, he was thrown into prison.
If a bonze earned a reputation for eloquence or piety, he often became the target of jealous violence at the hands of rival sectarians and had to fly for his life from the ruins of a burning temple.
A still more illustrious bonze was Ryoken, of Nanzen-ji.
The son of a fisherman, from youth he applied himself to the study of Buddhism, became a bonze of the Shingon sect, and took the name of Nichiren (lotus of the sun).
Works of art were collected from all quarters to enhance the charm of a palace concerning which the bonze Sekkei declared that it could not be exchanged for paradise.
Great Ruler of Siam and Lord of the White Elephant,' exclaimed the accuser, giving the monarch his strange but august title, 'I declare to thee that the chief bonze has doomed the country to destruction.
The ruler of Siam, deeply chagrined at their non-success, ordered the vanquished ones to be decapitated for their failure to bring back the bonze or his lifeless body.
Yet, in spite of all this, when the chief bonze died, the ruler of Siam, after much hesitation, gave the coveted office to Yu Chan.
Who the great bonze was by birth none knew, although it was whispered through the kingdom that he sprang from a certain illustrious family which urged his claim to the position to which the ruler reluctantly appointed him.
No sooner had the robes which he wore as a bonze been exchanged for those of a mountaineer than Yu Chan determined to see this maiden again.
To them the bonze went, and when the half-savage troops sent in search of him were encamped on the edge of the plain the mountaineers unexpectedly swooped down upon them.
The girl spoke so quietly and looked at him so gently that the young bonzewas reassured in a moment.
In olden times there lived in Eizan a man named Musashi, who was turbulent and wild in his youth, and yet became a famous bonze and lived until the ripe age of sixty-one.
So there and then, on the Gojo Bridge in the silver moonlight, the bonze Benkei vowed to be the true and faithful vassal of the young knight Ushiwaka and to serve him loyally till death, and thus was the compact between lord and vassal made.
At this time there lived on Mount Hiei, just outside the capital, a wild bonze named Musashi Bo Benkei, who was such a lawless and turbulent fellow that he had become notorious for his deeds of violence.
As Shiragiku proceeded with her story the youngbonze listened with eager attention.
Not until she had knocked and called several times did she hear any stir within; then some one answered in a subdued voice, the storm-shutters were pushed aside, and a young bonze appeared.
My son," the bonze answers, "give me twenty rupees and God will give you grace to believe all that you now do not believe.
The Indian may swear to the bonzethat he believes without taking a false oath, for, after all, there is no demonstration that Vishnu has not actually made five hundred visits to India.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bonze" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
