Sentences with phrase «monks from»

I acknowledge the Chair and CERD Committee, the Australian Government delegation, and the Australian NGO delegation, in particular Dr Djiniyini Gondarra from East Arnhemland, and Rosie Kunoth Monks from Utopia.

It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple.

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to the Crow Collection of Asian Art for a week - long artist residency to construct a magnificent mandala sand painting during the Mystical Arts of Tibet August 19 — 26.

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery at the Blanton Museum of Art (photo by Lindsay Hutchens)

Millions of grains of colored, crushed marble will be laid into place in this ancient spiritual art form to generate energies for global healing; family activities planned throughout week Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to the Crow Collection of Asian Art for a week - long artist residency to construct a magnificent Tantric -LSB-...]

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to the Crow Collection of Asian Art for a week - long artist residency to construct a magnificent Tantric Buddhist mandala sand painting.

Over the course of three weeks, visiting monks from the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies in Ithaca, New York will construct a Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala amidst the paintings of artist Eddie Martinez.

Dallas Art News reporter Thao Votang reviews her visit to the Blanton Museum of Art to see the Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery.

Furthermore, when it comes to the mandala process, it is widely known that the Buddhist monks from Tibet spend weeks working on one, only to destroy it soon after it is done — because it's not about the end product, but the spirituality of its creation.

Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery will create a 5 - foot sand mandala at the Blanton Museum of Art from January 9 - 13, 2013.

Lacquered wood sculptures of young monks from the Mandalay period of Burmese history; a textile from 20th - century Bali; and a 7th - century sandstone sculpture of four - armed Vishnu, a rare example of early Khmer culture in Cambodia, are among the objects from modern - day Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia on view.

From July 18 — 22, Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a temporary mandala sand painting on Level 3 of the Aspen Art Museum as part of their annual visit to Aspen.

Po Lin Monastry was founded in 1904 by 3 monks from Jiangsu Province on Mainland China.

The abbey was founded in 875 AD, by a group of monks from the Atlantic island of Noirmoutier.

Encounter Buddhist monks from all over the world.

The contents of the royal tombs were taken to Tarragona's cathedral for safe keeping, and they were restored to their original resting place in 1946, shortly after the Cistercian Abbot General brought four monks from Italy to revivify the monastery.

The astonishing - white World Peace Temple is one of the most historic Buddhist temples in Nepal, built by Buddhist Monks from the Japanese Nipponzan Myohoji organization.

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.

Some sources speculate that the pimentón tradition in La Vera was started by another group of monks from the Yuste Monastery in Caceres in the sixteenth century.

To them and to the Anglo - Saxons came monks from Ireland, the most notable being Columba (c. 521 - 597).

In a passage in Jerome (late 4th century or early 5th) he tells that he was visited in Palestine every day by monks from India, Persia and Ethiopia.

Mingana could not think of daily crowds of monks from India visiting Jerome and he interprets India to mean South Arabia.

Monks from Persia also used to come to India.

Every psalm page features a small gold image that graphically renders the chanting of the monks from St. John's Abbey.

On January 21, three bearded, robed monks from Kyiv's Monastery of the Caves, one of Russian Orthodoxy's most holy sites, unexpectedly stepped into this embattled zone.

Women are banned from going to Mount Athos not through of any fault of their own but to protect the monks from any temptations that may arise.

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.

Jesus Christ was either a Jew who became a Buddist monk in India or a Buddist monk from India (this is the Holy Grail!).

Brendan Freeman, a Trappist monk from Iowa, says that the Beatitudes «draw our hearts out of themselves into a new way of understanding our lives... they are deliberately incomplete.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

Would you be so critical of a monk from Tibet living his lonely life as a Preacher from South Carolina?

In the same year an elderly monk from Mount Athos also drove through the desert, looking to establish an American base for a very different kind of Eastern spirituality, one more remote (in many ways) from the American religious imagination than ashrams and gurus.

Some historians had identified Geber as the translated name of an eighth - century Islamic alchemist, but Newman's research turned up evidence supporting a different interpretation: Geber was actually the alias of Paul of Taranto, an obscure Franciscan monk from southern Italy.

Baba Hari Dass, master yogi and silent monk from the Himalayan foothills, encourages his students to serve, build community, and regularly practice spiritual disciplines.

Here is some of the history on the inverted tree: «In the 7th century a monk from Crediton,... [Read more...]

If you would really like to see my photo, visit the LinkedIn page through the link in the top right - hand corner, but be warned that a tourist in London once asked me if I was «the monk from the Da Vinci code», so don't expect too much.

One of the blog's readers pointed out that the monk from the above photo is not a real monk.

«He's like the monk from outside who knows how to read the Bible.

Not exact matches

In his moving speech, Catholic Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl - Rast offers a different path to happiness, one that can be patiently drawn from the simple yet potent daily practice of being grateful and sharing your gratitude with others.

If there's one thing the city can guarantee, it's that there will be plenty of opportunities for new experiences to add to your life story: eat some insects from the Sunday Night Market, speak about life with a monk, watch some muay thai.

China has been relentless in seeking isolation for the Dalai Lama and often succeeds in bullying weaker states from barring the monk.

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.

NYT: Monks in California Breathe Life Into a Monastery From Spain The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on a patch of rural Northern California land was, of course, improbable.

[9.31] They have taken their doctors of law and their monks for lords besides Allah, and (also) the Messiah son of Marium and they were enjoined that they should serve one God only, there is no god but He; far from His glory be what they set up (with Him).

Ron Dreher calls it the Benedict Option as he believes it is time for Christians to copy the fifth - century monk St Benedict and pursue a «communal withdrawal from the mainstream, for the sake of sheltering one's faith and family from corrosive modernity and cultivating a more traditional way of life».

In the hundred years between 850 and 950, Benedictine monks were driven out of ancient monasteries, the Papal States were overrun, and Muslim pirate bases were established along the coast of northern Italy and southern France, from which attacks on the deep inland were launched.

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.

(Recall the Desert Father who, when asked why the demons were so afraid of him, replied, «From the moment I became a monk I have striven to prevent anger rising to my lips.»)

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.

Or, as an old monk of Mount Athos once said to me, summing up what he believed he had learned from more than forty years of meditation on the gospels, «He is not what we would make him.»