Sentences with phrase «by the monks as»

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.

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

Headspace was founded in 2010 as a meditation event business run by cofounders Pierson, a former marketing executive whose clients included body - spray purveyor Axe, and Andy Puddicombe, a Buddhist monk.

The image of monks as peaceful these days is because no militant Buddhist sects are conducting violent acts in their traditional garb however 4000 people were injured in a poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by a Buddhist group.

One day in March AD 415, during the season of Lent, her chariot was waylaid on her route home by a Christian mob, possibly Nitrian monks led by a man identified only as Peter, who is thought to be Peter the Reader, Cyril's assistant.

Monks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to EuMonks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Eumonks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Europe.

Thus, these monks are continuing a long line of false religions and traditions that will be dealt with by God just before the battle of Armageddon (Rev 16:14, 16), as seen at Revelation 18.

There were three types of Man described: ones who chose celibacy to dedicate themselves to God's service, such as monks, priests, or nuns; those castrated by others, these are traditional eunuchs; and those who were «born that way.»

The words from Psalm 118 «Suscipe me, Domine» (receive me, Lord) are sung by those making profession as a monk or nun, and the teaching offered here on the nature of vows speaks to anyone who sees their human journey in terms of vocation.

Then I was invited to visit a monastery of Camaldolese Benedictine monks who live by the Rule of St. Benedict and the Brief Rule of St. Romuald, a tenth - century Italian known as the «father of reasonable hermits.»

The absence of women — as well as of many other things — gives the monks more freedom to devote themselves more fully to prayer, including for those denied entrance to their monasteries and lands (there are women's monasteries, by the way, closed to men for the same reason).

This was understood by the Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton, for example, as he attempted to appropriate Zen Buddhist insights.

Christ's forty days in the wilderness following his baptism by John the Baptist were often interpreted as symbolic of purification and renewal before beginning his ministry, and the monks who withdrew to the desert were in a sense following his example.

However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the just man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6

After the early experiments by individual persons, the group life of special dedication that we know as monasticism began to grow; so that nearly every geographical area had both local churches for people in general and special Christian communities for monks.

It just strikes me as odd that monks, who are supposed to be prime examples of the faith, are showing a political stance and going against the teaching by making such a request and performing such an action.

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

The ancient monks saw zeal as the virtue opposed to sloth, and in the Christmas readings we find the «zeal of the Lord» invoked by both the prophet Isaiah and the author of the letter to Titus.

It was to this period that the story as told by the venerable Bede and the monk of Whitby belongs, of Gregory's memorable encounter with young Anglo - Saxons in the market (perhaps slaves), of whom he remarked: «non Angli, sed angeli» (not Angles, but angels).

Scholars now recognize Calvin as above all else a teacher who sought to open the Word of God in scripture to the common people from whom, Calvin claimed, the Bible had been withheld by the scholastics, monks and priests of the Roman church.

Jesus referred him to the classes of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - men damaged by the practice of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for women?)

... And thenceforward he denied all such requests, saying: A man possesses of learning only so much as comes out of him in action, and a monk is a good preacher only so far as his deeds proclaim him such, for every tree is known by its fruits.»

Theravada Buddhists now point to What the Buddha Taught, by Walpola Rahula, a Ceylonese Bhikkhu (monk), as the best introduction to the central ideas of Buddhism, whether Theravada or Mahayana.

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

Jesus referred him to the classes of people whp either couldn't or didn't want to be married — those who were monks for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - those who were damaged by others such as eunuchs made to serve the governmemt in Egypt mainly — and those who were eunuchs, had no incliination (to woman?)

They may be characterized rather as encyclopedias «dealing with everything that should be known by a Jain monk.

As Rogers notes, monks learn this lesson directly: By giving up eros for the love of God (agape).

But neither More's relatively enlightened Catholicism, nor Erasmus's quiet following of the gospel, both within the bounds of the old institution, measured up to the excitement being felt by so many men and women as they read the New Testament, brooded on it, compared it with the teaching and life - style of the monks, nuns and priests they knew.

As I metioned, the Beowulf epic was rather clumsily «christianized» by whichever monk liked it enough to write it down — and yet still, neither grendels nor dragons exist in real life.

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.

The monastic or «regular clergy,» in their submission to a rule which was construed as a kind of higher ordination, were eventually to be esteemed by themselves and by the world as clergy par excellence, 53 But since this development belongs as much to the next chapter, a few words must here suffice concerning the pastoral function of monks to those outside the community of anchoritic or cenobitic discipline.

«Monks, I know of no other single thing by which a man's heart is so enslaved as by a woman.»

Foods and beverages containing monk fruit sweeteners can expand lower calorie and carbohydrate options for those trying to manage weight by consuming fewer calories, as well as people with diabetes who are trying to consume fewer carbohydrates and sugars.

Also known as luo han guo, which means monk fruit in Chinese — it is said to have been first discovered and used by Chinese monks in the Guilin region where Layn is headquartered - the low calorie, natural sweetener could give stevia a run for its money.

President of Layn Europe Luca Pennestri told FoodNavigator it can achieve up to 100 % sugar reduction in many applications, while for more challenging foods such as bakery and chocolate, Layn has a proprietary sweetener blend of monk fruit and stevia that can cut sugar by at least half.

This is very deceptive and unfortunately far too many companies are tricking consumers by advertising a combination product as monk fruit alone.

The Court of Appeals for this Circuit in the Gaidry case took note of these two cases, but held them not reconcilable with the later ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Baglin v. Cusenier, 221 U. S. 680 [1 T. M. Rep. 147], wherein it was held that the fact that the primary meaning of the word «Chartreuse» was geographical did not prevent the acquisition of the exclusive right to its use as the designation of a liqueur made by the monks of the Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse.

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.

Illini fans have responded to the team's stunning success — a Champaign supernova, as it were — by comporting themselves with enough passion to make Duke's Cameron Crazies look like Benedictine monks.

By resigning, he showed that it was possible to give up everything, as Christian monks and ascetics have always insisted: not a lesson that those who enjoyed the material benefits of the papacy (notably his successor Boniface VIII, who tried to erase Celestine's memory) wanted to disseminate.

Did the meteoroid that crashed into the backside of the moon, leaving behind a 22 - kilometer - wide crater named Giordano Bruno, cause the peculiar fountain of moonlight reported by a 12th century monk, as some researchers claim?

As more Angles, Saxons, and Jutes arrived, violence broke out with the local Britons and ended in «rivers of blood,» according to accounts by medieval monks.

The grottoes are a group of 492 caves used by Buddhist monks between the 4th and 14th centuries as temples and meeting places.

Especially popular are mandalas, used by ancient cultures such as Tibetan monks who create sand mandalas as a form of meditation.

Considered more potent than ginseng, this adaptogenic herb is revered by the Tibetan monks as being the supreme herb in traditional health modalities.

It is also widely known as Chaste tree - it was originally used as an anti-libido medicine by monks to remain celibate.

Created more thousand years ago as a meat substitute for Chinese Buddhist monks, seitan is made by mixing the protein in wheat (gluten) with herbs and spices.

Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by monks, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo - Aryan languages which were then...

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