Etymology

sokushinbutsu

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Today it means: A Buddhist monk observing austerity to the point of death and mummification. Full definition →

Japanese 即身仏
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from即身仏
  2. English todaysokushinbutsu

From Japanese 即身仏 (そくしんぶつ, sokushinbutsu, literally “Buddha immediately [turning into] his body”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.