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‖ bhikshu|ˈbɪkʃuː| Pl. -shook, -shu, -shus. [Skr. bhikṣú a beggar, f. bhikṣ to beg, ask alms.] A Brahmanical or Buddhist mendicant or religious devotee.
1811W. Ward Acct. Writings, Relig. & Manners Hindoos III. vi. 400 He becomes a Bhikshookŭ, literally a beggar, but his person is supposed to be distinguished by his having become..insensible to all human things, and to be absorbed in thinking on God. 1827A. Steele Law & Custom of Hindoo Castes ii. 86 Bhikshook or professional beggars may be Gruhust, and may marry and have children, which the Sunyasees may not. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 204/2 Sannyāsin (or bhikshu), or religious mendicant. 1924W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. vii. 138 This transforming experience..made men Sannyasi or Renouncers, and Bhikshu or beggars. 1962Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Aug. 609/3 The self-complacency which he had previously remarked in Hinayana bhikshus. |