Sentences with phrase «monks in monasteries»

The monks in the monasteries valued the Tibetan Terrier as a holy dog or good luck dog, never selling the animal but only giving it as a holy gift to those who were deserving.

For centuries, Harkleroad said, monks in monasteries cared for fragile books and labored making copies of the manuscripts by hand.

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

«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.

The only way to escape is to be a monk in a monastery only if you don't speak to one another to make it work.

The findings resemble real - world clustering behavior among nearly homogeneous groups: Tanzanian hunter - gatherers, executive MBAs at a mixer, and monks in a monastery.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

He said that since the play was written by monks in a seventeenth - century monastery, it was inconceivable that the authors could have harbored anti-Semitic feelings, and he pointed out that the text has not been revised since 1860.

Huffington Post: «Beyond the Robe»: New Generation of Buddhist Monks Embraces Science Recently, the Dalai Lama addressed a luncheon gathering at my home in Boston and announced a decision by the leaders of the monasteries to make the study of Western science part of the core curriculum required of all monastic scholars in the Gelug tradition.

But don't assume monks who live in monasteries and dedicate their lives to prayer aren't feeling pressure in this economy.

Like in all Orthodox monasteries, is you go as a visitor they welcome you and you are welcome to stay for as long as you want, without asking for money, as a guest, you don't have to become a monk.

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 worlIn 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 worlin prayer and are purposefully isolated from the outside world.

Brother John is a young monk who joined the monastery during his years at Trinity University in San Antonio.

The officer of works is to build in the I - ning ward one monastery to house twenty - one monks.

We will repress this long standing pestilence to its roots... In all the Empire more than four thousand six hundred monasteries are destroyed, two hundred and sixty thousand five hundred monks and nuns are returning to the world, both (men and women) to be received as tax paying householders.

James would thrive at a 10,000 - person worship service in a stadium; I'd prefer a Benedictine monastery with twelve monks in brown robes.

Here the lay followers of the Buddhist monastic order, the Samgha, may gather in groups to perform meritorious rituals of devotion at the monastery, but their participation is individual and limited, unlike that of the congregation of monks whose corporate life they support.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

Having spent some time in a Buddhist monastery, I feel qualified to say that any self - respecting Buddhist monk would die laughing over the use of Karma in this book.

There were monks and monasteries in India.

They will burn at the stake any person who dares to defy the dogma handed down to them by lonely monks sequestered in monasteries.

When he got back to the monastery, his fellow monks asked what he had read in Scripture which had offended him so much to cause him to sell his only Bible.

True to its Byzantine tradition, Russian Christianity gave prominence to monasticism, but, somewhat differently from the Byzantine monasticism with its aloofness from the world, due in part to the initiative of Theodosius many Russian monasteries served the sick and the poor, and the monks were guides and confessors to the rank and file of the laity.

The monastery of Bec, in Normandy, founded in the first half of the eleventh century, was a center of learning and of the training of monks who did much to raise the discipline of the Church in wide areas.

It is said that from them twelve monasteries arose, each with twelve monks and an abbot — as with the Irish peregrini in imitation of Christ and the twelve Apostles.

Monks, while holding hands, would chant and sing, moving through a symbolic «maze of life» in the monastery or sanctuary.

Ignorant of monks and monasteries, Hendra cowers in his room in the guest house, awaiting some awful confrontation.

Upon his conversion, Charles de Foucauld — a French monk and hermit — was ready to live all - out for God in some monastery or other.

He was the sort of monk one encounters frequently in Orthodox monasteries: militantly cheerful, disarmingly intelligent, humble above all.

A similar movement, even more extensive, arose in Russia, the revival of primitive monastic ideals in the spirit of the early Fathers of the Desert begun by Paissi Velichkovski (1722 - 94), a monk on Mount Athos and later Abbot of a Moldavian monastery.

The monks spend about six hours a day in services — common practice in Orthodox monasteries — and sometimes longer, as during an all - night vigil.

The Eastern churches, in part, solved the latent conflict between the clergy of the world and the monks by recruiting their higher clergy from the monasteries.

Forty days later, the monks came to take up the body of Saint Cosmas and translate it to the monastery, but it was no longer in the grave.

This theory agrees with that of food historians, who believe that chiles initially were grown in monasteries and the seeds were spread throughout Spain and Europe first by traveling monks and then by Spanish and Portuguese traders, who introduced them into Africa, India, and Asia.

Even though Buddhist monks were starting to cultivate potatoes at their monasteries in Nepal and neighboring Bhutan in the 1700s, potatoes never really caught on until almost 150 years later, when the government of Nepal stepped in with some support from the Indian government.

Even modern genetics started with a hobbyist: Gregor Mendel, the 19th - century Austrian monk who performed groundbreaking studies of crossbreeding in his spare time while tending the grounds of his monastery.

One came from a monk who studied pea plants in a Moravian monastery in the 1850s.

The monks hid many tablets in nine caves they had dug in a mountainside near the monastery.

He was the first monk in the Constanța region to power his monastery with renewable...

The monastery permanently houses a community of monks, nuns, and lay practitioners; visitors are welcome year - round and can participate in a Day of Mindfulness or stay for longer personal or themed retreats.

When Sammy's auto swerves off the road, he wakes up in a monastery, having been removed from the wreckage by sensitive, Shakespeare - quoting, 7» 7» - tall giant, Max (pro basketball player Gheorghe Muresan), a ward of the monks who works as a monastery caretaker.

A naive monk travels to Hollywood in an attempt to raise money for his monastery in this attempted comedy.

A visit to a Buddhist monastery reveals that they are closed on Mondays — «What part of Mondays don't you understand,» screams a monk before the abbot intervenes and asks Hector in.

BULLETPROOF MONK starts off in 1941, where a Tibetan monastery is decimated by a Nazi squad led by the evil Strucker.

Into Great Silence INTO GREAT SILENCE is an intimate portrayal and examination of the life of the devout monks who live within the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order situated in the French Alps.

INTO GREAT SILENCE is an intimate portrayal and examination of the life of the devout monks who live within the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order situated in the French Alps.

The true story of seven French Trappist monks who were kidnapped from their monastery in Tibhirine and killed during the Algerian Civil War, Of Gods and Men surpasses the tragically topical by focusing on the monks» faith and their spiritual commonality with their Muslim neighbors.

Jack, in the castle market, encounters a monk who is trying to escape the castle and get back to the monastery.

Brendan, a young monk growing up in a monastery dominated by fear of Viking invasion, longs to become a scribe and help the new monk in town write his Book.