Sentences with phrase «monks at»

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

Tibetan Buddhist Monks at the Blanton Museum of Art (photo courtesy of the Drepung Loseling Monastery)

Spend a few days in Chiang Rai eating delicious Northern Thai cuisine and getting to know the monks at a local wat.

Day 8 After offering food to monks at a temple, disembark and drive to Kanchanaburi.

Visit the lunar landscapes of Lamayuru, mingle with monks at the Rizong Monastery, or keen hikers can walk a portion of the «Sham Valley» trek to the village of Yangthang.

DISCOVER Interact with the monks at a Monastery Visit in.

The procession is led by musicians playing Gagaku court music, and the monks at the front throw lotus petal purification papers into the air, clearing the way to the other world.

Here in Shangri - La, you can drink some yak butter tea — the closest thing Tibetans have to cappuccino — prepared by a local woman in her home, and you can have up - close encounters with the pre-pubescent monks at the centuries - old Songzanlin Monastery, the largest Tibetan Buddhist Lamasery in the Yunnan Province.

Tigers impounded, abbot on the run, but tourist trap has survived raids before KANCHANABURI, Thailand ---- Thai authorities, assisted by personnel from the Wildlife Friends Foundation of Thailand, on May 30, 2016 began impounding the 137 tigers kept by erstwhile Buddhist monks at the internationally notorious Tiger Temple.

The monks at the St. Bernard Hospice were given dogs by the farmers in the valley below the mountains for protection.

The monks at the Ter Duinen monastery first bred these dogs.

That's the question facing the eight monks at the center of Xavier Beauvois's slow moving yet powerful film «Of Gods and Men.»

Not that I do expect Swansea to sack Garry Monk, or that the monks at Castle Ned do not get their just reward.

That was another Arsenal big time signing, from Bath City if remember rightly (no doubt the monks at Castle Ned will correct me).

José Guerra, writing in «Foods from Spain News,» speculates that monks at the Monastery of Guadalupe in Extremadura were the first Europeans to discover the flavor — and heat — of chiles by crushing them and adding them to their soups.

José Guerra, writing in «Foods from Spain News,» speculates that monks at the Monastery...

For about four years he lived with Carthusian monks at the London Charter house.

By New Testament times the tension between prophecy and politics was expressed in the opposition between pragmatists like the Saduccees and Pharisees, who sought to adapt national life to the inevitable powers of the world, and visionaries like the Essene monks at Qumran or John the Baptist who anticipated the emergence of a new age of holiness after God judged this evil age.

With my two brothers, I was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth, and though I turned against the school, leaving at the age of sixteen, I did not doubt, and have never doubted, the truth of the Catholic religion.

He assured protection of religious freedom in his letter to Christian monks at St. Catherine's Monastery.

From a small group of Monks at Taizé the influence upon the Christian community has been immense, both on Catholics and Protestants.

Even the chanting monks at the Sant «Antimo abbey are imports — a French brotherhood that took over the church a decade ago.

After receiving his PhD, he decided that he would travel to the Himalayas, where he became a monk at age 30.

Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., is a Benedictine monk at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon.

Padre Pio became a monk at the age of 15 and at 31 received the stigmata.

See I heard from someone at the college I'm at that there's this blog somewhere that linked to a website where there was a quote from a forum post where a pilgrim told of meeting monk at a neo-monastery who's been doing some interesting research into the possibility of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy being considered apocalyptic scripture which could mean that the dolphin Dave was on was one of the ones that escaped the earth just before its destruction.

Driscoll is a monk at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon and the author of one of the best contemporary explanations of the Mass, What Happens at Mass..

They wanted him to marry but he was drawn by the love of Christ and, unknown to them, made his way to the Holy Mountain of Athos to become a monk at the Bulgarian monastery of Zographou.

Khenchen Rinpoche became a monk at an early age, underwent the traditional 3 year, 3 month, 3 day retreat three times by the age of thirty, and became a Druponla (retreat master) during his second full retreat.

I'm going to offering food to the monk at the Tampel tomorrow.

The nightlife hotspots of Lamai and Chaweng are offset by the tranquil resorts of Maenam and Choeng Mon, the interior is rich with waterfalls and tropical forest, and it's not every day you get the chance to pray to a mummified monk at Wat Kunaram.

Another fascinating and somewhat macabre attraction is the mummified monk at Wat Khunaram.

Along the way, Erickson encounters spiritual leaders who include the chief priest of the Icelandic pagan religion of Asatru, a Trappist monk at Thomas Merton's Gethsemani Abbey, and a Lakota retreat director at South Dakota's Bear Butte.

On Friday night, in celebration of Thelonious Monk's centenary, CAP UCLA presents pianist JASON MORAN — IN MY MIND, MONK AT TOWN HALL 1959.

Dom Sylvester Houédard (b. 1924, Guernsey, UK - d. 1992, UK) was a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire who became a cult figure of counter-culture sixties London.

Dom Sylvester Houédard (b. 1924, Guernsey, UK - d. 1992, UK) was a remarkable man: a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire who became a cult figure of counter-culture sixties London.

Reworked two web sites for my little brother, a monk at Dormition Skete.

Not exact matches

Monks sitting in front of the press at Dreamforce conference watching a Black Eyed Peas music video.

«Governor Carney redefined the office of the governor of the Bank of Canada,» said Lee, describing the general public persona of previous governors as «monks in the monastery,» speaking in an «econo - geek» language that didn't often resonate with Canadians at large.

Robert A. G. Monks, founder of Lens Governance Advisors, ISS, and RAM Trust, says the environment for asking questions and raising issues at the meetings, however, is inhospitable.

Now, enthusiasts line up to hoard rarities like the annual spring release of Halifax's Garrison Spruce Beer; esoteric and earthy Italian imports like Panil; and, most famously, Westvleteren XII, a Belgian ale brewed by Trappist monks that sold out in minutes when it hit 16 Ontario liquor stores at a cost of $ 80 per six - pack last December.

After inviting a Taoist monk to perform a ritual at the founding ceremony of a nuclear project, seven officials from Northwest China's Gansu Province have been investigated by the local discipline watchdog.

He holds mindfulness workshops with Buddhist monks from a group that has been staying at one of his San Francisco mansions for the last year.

I believe with all my heart that the monks who burned themselves did not aim at the fatality of their oppressors but only at a change in their policy.

Pence signed it into law in a closed - press ceremony at the statehouse, surrounded by nuns, monks, and right - wing lobbyists.

Thai and foreign Buddhist monks light candles while chanting at Buddhamonthon in Nakorn Pathom province on January 22, 2013.

Today is Reformation Day, so called because on October 31, 1517, Dr. Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk and professor of Bible at the University of Wittenberg, posted his 95 Theses calling for a public debate on the sale of indulgences.

Since the center of the movement was Mt. Athos, Nicholas dispatched a military unit, which compelled Russian monks to declare at gunpoint either for the Orthodox Church or the new heresy.

In the brewery, monks brewed vast quantities of Scottish ale, which was served by the liter at mealtimes.

On any given day at Mass with the monks here in Atchison, you'll hear commemorations of saints as well as campus milestones and the death anniversaries of confreres from the 150 years of the college.