The artist, very short, a big noise being associated with Buddhist movement (10)

'associated with buddhist movement' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'the artist very short a big noise' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'artist' could be 'ra' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts) and 'ra' is found in the answer.
'very' could be 'v' (abbreviation) and 'v' is found in the answer.
'a' is within the answer.
'noise' could be 'din' (din is a kind of noise) and 'din' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'the' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'being' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?