an annual festival of the Japanese Buddhists, welcoming ancestral spirits to household altars.
Also called Feast of Lanterns.
Origin
< Japanese, orig. Urabon < Chinese version of Sanskritullambana literally, hanging upside down (a metaphor for the suffering brought on by physical desires)
Bön
[bohn] /boʊn/
noun
1.
a shamanistic Tibetan sect, absorbed by the first Buddhist sects of the 7th century and later.
British Dictionary definitions for Bon
Bon1
/bɔːn/
noun
1.
Also called Feast of Lanterns, Festival of Lanterns. an annual festival celebrated by Japanese Buddhists
2.
the pre-Buddhist priests of Tibet or one such priest
their religion
Word Origin
from Japanese bon, originally Urabon, from Sanskrit ullambana hanging upside down
Bon2
/bɒn/
noun
1.
Cape Bon, a peninsula of NE Tunisia
Word Origin and History for Bon
bon
French, literally "good" (adj.), from Latin bonus "good" (see bene-). It has crossed the Channel in phrases such as bon apétit (1860), literally "good appetite;" bon-ton (1744) "good style;" bon mot.
Bon in Technology
language (From "Bonnie", Ken Thompson's wife) A language designed by Ken Thompson and later revised by him to produce B. [When? Features?] (1997-02-04)