shakubuku

present singular third person shakubukus · participle present shakubukuing · participle past shakubukued · past shakubukued

1. Nichiren Buddhismto proselytize; to convert (someone) to one's religion

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

   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

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   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.

   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