廃仏毀釈

はいぶつきしゃく

noun

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abolish Buddhism, destroy Shākyamuni (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era)(yojijukugo)

廃	abolish, obsolete, cessation, discarding, abandon
仏	Buddha, the dead, France
毀	break, destroy, censure, be chipped, be scratched, be broken, be ruined
釈	explanation
排	repudiate, exclude, expel, reject, line up, arrange
棄	abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice