Budai
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Etymology
editDerived from Mandarin 布袋 (Bùdài, “cloth sack”).
Proper noun
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- (Buddhism) A 10th-century monk, revered as Maitreya, a bodhisattva, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon; the Laughing Buddha.
- An urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan.
- [2007 June 3, “Conservationists head to Putai to study `living fossils'”, in Taipei Times[1], sourced from CNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 13, 2007, Taiwan News, page 2[2]:
- Members of several wildlife conservation groups went on a field trip to a salt marsh in Putai (布袋), Chiayi City, yesterday to witness Asian horseshoe crabs, known as one of the few "living fossil" species in Taiwan, which have been sighted recently on the coast near Chiayi City. […]
Five adult and 32 young Asian horseshoe crabs, tachypleus tridentatus, whose appearance on Earth can be dated back to 200 million years ago, have been sighted on the coast of Putai, making it the third place in the country to witness the appearance of the crabs after sightings were reported on the outlying island of Kinmen and in the Penghu (澎湖) archipelago, Chiayi County officials said on Friday.]
- [2015 September 27, Chen Wei-han, “Human activity blamed for dwindling spoonbills in Tainan”, in Taipei Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on September 29, 2015, Taiwan News, page 3[4]:
- Institute researcher Chen Tien-shui (陳添水) said that development surrounding Tsengwen and Sihcao, especially the expansion of a local fish farming industry that has replaced seasonal, shallow ponds with permanent deeper pools, has reduced the food supply and forced the spoonbills to move to wetlands in Putai (布袋) and Beimen (北門) townships and Kaohsiung City’s Cieding wetlands (茄萣溼地).]
Noun
editBudai (plural Budais)
- A statue or image of Budai.
- She gifted me a Budai on my birthday.
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