shakubuku

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 折伏 (shakubuku).

Verb

shakubuku (third-person singular simple present shakubukus, present participle shakubukuing, simple past and past participle shakubukued)

1. (Nichiren Buddhism) to proselytize; to convert (someone) to one's religion
   • 1973, Robert Towne, based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan, 1:10:50 from the start, in Hal Ashby, director, The Last Detail (motion picture), spoken by Donna (Luana Anders), Columbia Pictures:

     I've got this friend, George Lucido. He shakubukued me. He's a group chief in Toronto.

   • 2006, Richard Hughes Seager, Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 60:

     He also recounts how he was engaged at the time in lengthy, heated debates with a cousin who shakubukued him, in an effort to persuade him to join the Soka Gakkai.