Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dharma talk

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English

Syllables: dhar-ma talk
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A public discourse by a Buddhist teacher, similar to a sermon or homily, and distinguished from a lecture by being shorter and less formal.

Example Sentences

"I'd never given a dharma talk before, much less in the local Lao dialect, to hundreds of people. I just got up there, and he said, "Tell them what you know of the dharma, go to it.""
"It is important to note that a dharma talk is not a lecture, although it has a didactic purpose. Such a talk is given usually as an accompaniment to a period of meditation."

Etymology

From dharma + talk.

Inflected Forms

dharma talks (plural)

Questions

What does dharma talk mean?: A public discourse by a Buddhist teacher, similar to a sermon or homily, and distinguished from a lecture by being shorter and less formal.
Where does dharma talk come from?: From dharma + talk.

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