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Bonzes (sing. Bonʹze)

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Indian priests. In China they are the priests of the Fohists; their number is 50,000, and they are represented as idle and disolute. In Japan they are men of rank and family. In Tonquin every pagoda has at least two bonzes, and some as many as fifty.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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