Definition of "bonze" [bon•ze]

• A Buddhist monk, especially of China, Japan, or nearby countries. (noun)

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• "Cyclopædia.] [Footnote 47: The word bonze (Japanese _bon-so_ or _bozu_, Chinese"
• "If you want to support your child to reach for the gold yet celebrate the bonze -- or if your once-happy child that used to love skating or basketball no longer wants to participate -- here are nine imagination tools that can help."
• "Part of the horror of such memorable coups of contemporary photojournalism as the pictures of a Vietnamese bonze reaching for the gasoline can, of a Bengali guerrilla in the act of bayoneting a trussed-up collaborator, comes from the awareness of how plausible it has become, in situations where the photographer has the choice between a photograph and a life, to choose the photograph."