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A 10th-century monk, revered as Maitreya, a bodhisattva, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon; the Laughing Buddha. · An urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan.
noun
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Derived from Mandarin 布袋 (Bùdài, “cloth sack”).
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