Also Boudhism, Budhism, Booddhism. [f. BUDDHA + -ISM.] The religious system founded by Buddha.
1801. Joinville, in Asiat. Res., VII. 400. If Boudhism could not have established itself among the Brahmins, [etc.].
1816. Asiatic Jrnl., I. 19. The name and peculiarities of Buddhism have a good deal fixed my attention.
1870. F. Hall, in Wilson, Vishṅu Puráṅa, V. 376. The Hindus, with their hatred of Buddhism and everything therewith cognate.
