Sentences with phrase «by monks»

It is said to have first been used by monks in China in the 13th century.

The Lhasa Apso was used by monks in Tibet to guard their temples and Dalmatians were used to guard and defend carriages against highwaymen in the 19th century.

The name comes from the yellow - green liqueur made by monks in the Chartreuse mountains of France.

The Bodhi tree sapling was brought to Sri Lanka in the third century BC, during the introduction of Buddhism by monks from India.

It has been kept by monks for over 3,000 years.

Trump has often stated that his returns are «all very beautiful,» as if written by monks in gold leaf.

Finally, you will be taught the traditional contemplations, the «great» contemplations known as Mahavakyas, which have traditionally be practiced primarily by those monks living lives of renunciation in remote places like the cave monasteries of the high Himalayas.

Have you tried looking at the crop record in Galicia, or diaries kept by monks at Santiago de Compostela?

Having grown up in New Orleans and been educated by monks who must have had quite an exceptional understanding with the Lord, I totally understood.

You do know the bible was written by multiple people, then translated (from 3 different languages) and copied by hand by monks for hundreds of years, right?

Affligem is a Belgian abbey beer, first brewed by monks in an abbey in Affligem, Belgium in the 11th century as a means to raise money, avoid drinking contaminated water and provide nutrition.

She then had me taste the different grades of matcha, from the worst quality (the one you will find in your matcha latte) to the premium ceremony grade, drunk by monk before meditation.

To this day, some matcha is still blessed by monks before it is used ceremonially.

She was raised by monks for a year, and then lived in a hospital in Bangkok.

These beautiful gardens were first owned by the monks of the Priory of Saint Magloire in the 6th century.

One early scene features a narrator reciting the biblical story of the flood as water cascades around a church, even running over a stack of books held by monks.

Poblet is still occupied by monks.

Private tour by a monk at the Yote Son Monastery.

Wealthy patrons and local rulers also commissioned caves, all created by monks living and worshipping at the site.

«We have made so many appeals (to stop self - immolations), but they are still doing it,» said Sangay, the political successor of the Dalai Lama, as the number of self - immolations by monks, nuns and others swelled to 68 since March 2011.

The generally accepted history of the TT breed says that they were raised for hundreds of years by the monks that lived high in the mountains of Tibet.

So many of them... meats that are made there, these vegan meats, are like age - old recipes by monks and Buddhists that come from Taiwan.

Natural cleansing and healing by means of hydrotherapy, hot and cold baths, friction, compresses and enemas has been widely practiced by monks, naturopaths, doctors and ordinary folk throughout history.

The St. Bernard, or St. B., was bred by monks in the Swiss Alps.

Referred to by the monks as «little lions,» lions having been tamed by the Buddha himself, the dogs came to Tibet with the advent of Buddhism in Tibet in the seventeenth century.

Meditation might sound like a difficult undertaking only tackled by monks or tech executives with Herculean levels of self control and a lot more household help than you have, but experts insist that you can get the benefits of mindfulness meditation in just a few minutes a day.

Tibetans - in - exile hold a candlelight vigil following the self - immolation attempt by a monk in Kathmandu on February 13, 2013.

It remains the basis of the way of life still followed by monks in the Eastern Church.

The bible is a collection of folklore pulled together by monks in the 12th century.Jesus is based on the legend of Mithra.Look it up.Game over

The responsibility of the College as a Catholic college sponsored by the monks of Belmont Abbey to follow Church teaching is equally clear.

An abuse survivor is suing a Catholic Church sect and a local authority after he was assaulted by a monk... More

It is impossible to take the scriptures literally as they were copied by monks many times over and usually in accordance to the political agenda of the church.

Informed by the monks of this quarrel Buddha told them the parable: A king had a company of blind men brought together.

Its powerful words, chanted by the monks during every service, stayed with me during the four - hour drive home:

The company says it uses the same mortadella recipe developed more than 500 years ago by the monks of Bologna and Modena.

So far as it embraced the notion of place, the description was not of a district, but of the Monastery of the Order — the abode of the Monks — and the term in its entirety pointed to production by the Monks.»

Christopher Columbus brought chile peppers and their seeds back from the New World in 1493, and they were grown mostly by monks in monasteries.

V.E.P. Chartreuse Verte, a secret recipe developed by monks in 1605, is a bright green digestif made from over 130 different plants, herbs, and spices.

Since Augustine, the history is a mixture of good and bad, of the heroism of missionary endeavour from Augustine onwards, through the evangelism of the savage tribes of Scandinavia by monks from the north east of England, and onwards over the centuries to the great missions from the 18th century which led to so many of the churches whose Primates are here.

It is now clear that Omar Khan Massoudi, director of Kabul» sNational Museum, and a few other Afghans risked their lives to protect the artifacts from the Taliban, who were intent on destroying images — and who, in 2001, succeeded in blowing up the famed Bamiyan Buddhas, towering stone sculptures carved into the mountainside by monks about 1,500 years ago.

It swept into Tuscany in the 12th century, when four leprosariums sprang up in the area, including one run by the monks.

«The image of Vikings in horned helmets killing children and so forth comes from politically and religiously motivated written accounts by monks a few centuries later,» she says.