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Nichiren
Japanese Buddhist prophet, founder of Nichiren Buddhism. The son of a fisherman, he entered a Buddhist monastery at 11. After an exhaustive study of all the major Buddhist schools existing in Japan, he concluded in 1253 that the Lotus Sutra was the only doctrine suitable for his age and predicted calamity for Japan if all other sects were not abandoned. This pronouncement caused him to be banished from his monastery. He also claimed that Japan was the chosen country of Buddhism, from which Buddhist salvation would spread to other lands. He was later exiled to an island in the Sea of Japan, where in 1272 he wrote his major work, The Opening of the Eyes.
Bichat
French anatomist and physiologist. In addition to bedside observations of patients, he conducted autopsies to study the changes disease causes in various organs. With no knowledge of the cell as the functional unit of living things, Bichat was among the first to see the organs of the body as being formed through the specialization of simple, functional units (tissues). Without using a microscope, he distinguished 21 kinds of tissues that, in different combinations, form the organs of the body. His systematic study of human tissues helped create the science of histology.
bighorn
Either of two similar N. Amer. sheep: the Canadian bighorn (Ovis canadensis) and the Dall sheep (O. dalli). Bighorn have compact, muscular bodies; short, pointed ears; and very short tails. Both sexes have horns that in the male may curve in a spiral more than 39 in. (1 m) long. Their fur is usually brown with a whitish rump patch. Both species are about 39 in. (1 m) tall at the shoulder; the Canadian bighorn is heavier. They live in remote crags and cliffs of mountainous areas and feed mainly on grasses. The Canadian bighorn lives in small bands on refuges or inaccessible habitat, now reduced from its former N Mexico-Canada range. Dall sheep range from Alaska to British Columbia.
Bihar
State (pop., 1994 est.: 93,080,000), NE India, on the border with Nepal. It occupies 67,184 sq mi (174,006 sq km) and its capital is Patna. Its limits are nearly the same as those of the ancient kingdoms of Videha and Magadha, for which records date back to c.600 BC. In AD 320 the area came under the Gupta empire, whose capital was at Pataliputra (Patna). Overcome by the Muslims c.1200, Bihar was annexed to Delhi c.1497. Taken by the British in 1765, it was made part of Bengal. The area was the scene of revolts against the British in the mid-19th cent. and of M. Gandhi's nonviolent movement in 1917. Bihar was made a province of British India in 1936; with India's independence in 1947, it became a state. It is one of India's least urbanized states, and most of its population engages in agriculture.
biochip
Small-scale device, analogous to an integrated circuit, constructed of or used to analyze organic molecules associated with living ...
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