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Bon
1[ bon; French bawn ]
noun
- Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.
Bon
2[ bawn ]
noun
- an annual festival of the Japanese Buddhists, welcoming ancestral spirits to household altars.
Bön
3[ bohn ]
noun
- a shamanistic Tibetan sect, absorbed by the first Buddhist sects of the 7th century and later.
Bon
1/ bɔːn /
noun
- Also calledFeast of LanternsFestival of Lanterns an annual festival celebrated by Japanese Buddhists
- the pre-Buddhist priests of Tibet or one such priest
- their religion
Bon
2/ bɒn /
noun
- Cape BonCape Bon a peninsula of NE Tunisia
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Bon1
< Japanese, originally Urabon < Chinese version of Sanskrit ullambana literally, hanging upside down (a metaphor for the suffering brought on by physical desires)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Bon1
from Japanese bon , originally Urabon , from Sanskrit ullambana hanging upside down
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