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Bon| The pre-Buddhist faith of many of the Tibetan peoples. Probably originally shamanistic in origin, it underwent a transformation in reaction to the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet in the 8th and 9th centuries. Bon pos are followers of this reformed Bon religion, which claims to have been founded in the distant past by Shenrab Mibo. Most of present-day Bon religious practice and sacred texts are clearly copied from Buddhism. Before the Chinese invasion of 1959 there were 350 Bon monasteries in Tibet. |
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Aomori
Aucassin et Nicolette, ou Les Mœurs du bon vieux temps
Bon Air
bon marché
bon mot
bon ton
bon voyage
Buon, Bartolommeo
Florian, Jean Pierre Claris de
Forrester, Alfred Henry
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Gaultier, Bon.
Martin, Theodore
O-Bon
Passereau
Ponsard, François
Prévost, Eugène
Ryelandt, Joseph
Salacrou, Armand
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| Both the parents died before the Restoration, leaving the little girl to the care of her pious grandmother, la vicomtesse, who survived, in a feeble old age, to descant on the former grandeur of her house, and to sigh, in common with so many others, for le bon vieux temps. We heard her lock the door and shoot the bolt, so that I could not help laughing, and said to Monsieur: "There's Mademoiselle double-locking herself in,--she must be afraid of the 'Bete du bon Dieu Every now and then some one of them would grasp Sancho's right hand in his own saying, "Espanoli y Tudesqui tuto uno: bon compano;" and Sancho would answer, " Bon compano, jur a Di |