roshi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 老師 (rōshi).

Noun

roshi (plural roshis)

  1. An elderly and revered Buddhist monk.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 227:
      A good abbot or roshi couldn't care less about power, and a truly enlightened philosopher-prince like the emperor Asoka of ancient India would become more interested in compassion for the suffering of humanity than in power over the states of the world.
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