Sentences with phrase «known as monk»

This is also why chasteberry is known as monk's pepper.

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The second monk was silent and obviously angry for a long time as they walked and finally burst out «You know we are not allowed to come in contact with women, what were you thinking?»

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

A third type of monasticism, known as the coenobitic (from the Greek «for living together»), provides for monks to live together in a community with rules and a head monk.

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.»

In the monasteries, also known collectively as the Holy Mountain or The Garden of the Mother of God, the monks spend most of their time in prayer and are purposefully isolated from the outside world.

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

The fascinating story of how medieval Irish monks» practices of reading and writing, along with their efforts to teach others to do the same, saved Western civilization as we know it.

Hence, the monks devised a new, purely defensive martial art that became know as «The Way of the Jew»....

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.

... 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.»

Churches whose members know Psalms as well as any medieval monk, whose hymns and prayers and praise are infused with the cadences of the Psalter.

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

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.

«You people do not convince me yet that the vows of priests and monks are to be considered as in the same category... I am pretty well agreed that those who entered the abyss before or during the age of puberty can leave it with a clear conscience; but about those who have grown old and stayed on in this state, I don't know yet.»

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

Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»

I am currently trying out a sweetener made with monk fruit & erythritol (The Chinese know the fruit as Luo Han Guo).

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.

The establishment of the new national monument is key to saving the monk seals, as habitat loss is currently their chief threat, given that hunting is no longer allowed.

Similar to stevia, monk fruit, also known as luo han guo, is a newer alternative sweetener available in healthfood stores with an excellent safety record for hundreds of years.

Also known as vitex and monk's pepper, chaste berry is a common herbal remedy for PMS.

The monk fruit, also known as Lo Han, is a sub-tropical melon - like fruit native to South East Asia.

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

Luo Han means monk and Guo means fruit, and it has become known as Monk Fruit in the west.

It is said that the Buddha told his monks, «If you knew, as I do, the power of generosity, you would never let a meal pass without sharing some of it.»

This is something I definitely have to try there... The Pharisäer from Germany has as far as I know a long tradition, when monks were secretly drinking alcohol, hidden in the coffee...

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.

The kids might not know Kung Fu or The Fall Guy, but how can they not be interested in «traveling warrior monk» and «bounty - hunting stunt man» as jumping - off points?

Kar reluctantly becomes involved with the monk in the plot to protect the scroll, as does Jade (Jamie [no longer James] King, Pearl Harbor, Slackers).

The monk practising the debate is immersed, in his everyday life of Buddhist and as a tibetan, in a cultural universe filled with songs, music and dances crowned, in a singular relationship to gods whom he knows how he has invented to help him to represent itself and to live the logic of the contradictory which makes the phenomena.

What he thinks about instead, as they travel for hours deep into the Northern California wilderness, is that the face of one of his abductors belongs to his own son, Glenn — long estranged and living (the last Monks knew) on the streets of Seattle.

When Monks is untied and steps out, he sees he's been brought to a remote off - the - grid community where paramilitary training and methamphetamine make for combustible, uneasy bedfellows — and that Glenn has fallen under the spell of a disenfranchised countercultural sociopath known simply as Freeboot, who claims that a revolution «of the people» is already under way.

Koh Toch (or Small Island) is also sometimes known as Pagoda Island because the island consists only of a pagoda, a couple of monks and a small walking track.

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Game protagonist is quite a tough nut to crack as he knows the basics of ancient martial arts only mastered by legendary Shaolin monks.

Known as the «Lotus - Born,» he is often shown sitting on a flower and dressed in the robes of a monk, teaching Dharma to the people.