roshi
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 老師 (rōshi).
Noun
[edit]roshi (plural roshis)
- 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.