Sentences with phrase «monks on»

«If you look at Halo traditionally, whether it's bringing monks on stage or doing a nice piece around where the story is, we usually have two E3s with the game, «he said.

The temple was built between the 9th and 12th Centuries and it receives, on average, a paltry five tourists a day — mostly Buddhist monks on pilgrimage.

She's walked a remote portion of the Great Wall of China; overnighted in the world's biggest desert, the Empty Quarter; and toasted new vintages with wine - making monks on a Riviera island.

A whimsical concoction as pretty as a wedding cake, a multi-tiered tale, within a tale, within a tale, the GRAND and very PINK Hotel Budapest is presided over by one Gustave H., (Ralph Fiennes), the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, and involves a wide - eyed lobby boy named «Zero,» Tilda Swinton as a wealthy octogenarian who's «dynamite in the sack,» a family squabble over inheritance, a priceless and definitely kitschy piece of Renaissance art, a greedy evil son (Adrien Brody), a knucklebound henchman with a frightening underbite (Willem Dafoe), a lanky lawyer (Jeff Goldblum) and his soon to be airborn Persian cat, monks on skis, cliff - hanging climaxes, and plotting pastry chefs!

Indeed, some of the more absorbing scenes take place outside of Plum Village when we follow the monks on outings to the US.

It speaks to the satisfactions I've found recently through intentional encounters with the unscreened world: in helping my neighbor load up his baby pigs; putting my phone in a tray as I come through the front door so that I remember to give my kids my whole self; observing the way the Benedictine monks on the hill near my home bow in greeting one another and the way their eyes pierce me — greeting me, the stranger, as a guest, as Christ.

«Needless to say, when the next elections came around, the ballot box was once again waiting for the monks on the table of the monastery refectory.»

Sierra Nevada Ovila Abbey Saison — Sierra Nevada has collaborated with local monks on their Ovila series in an effort to create Trappist - style ales with American brewing techniques.

I recounted a story of a Franciscan monk sojourning in China in the 14th century who disagreed with a Buddhist monk on the nature of monkeys from the woods that the Buddhist fed.

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

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.

We don't want to get off on an overwrought parody of a witty comedian's trademark conceit, but during his debut as a sideline reporter, Dickerson self - immolated faster than a Buddhist monk on a Saigon street.

To begin the analysis, Vercellotti laid out the leg bones of one monk on a table in the makeshift lab inside the church, below a ceiling covered with faded frescoes.

Reiterated Film Prof and monk on a hog seeks to settle in for bundling and TCM.

But his heart is still in Bangladesh, so now he's trying to save the lives of other indigenous tribal children with the Padamu Residential Education Centre, a primary school that he opened with a local monk on the grounds of a Buddhist temple.

While no - one is expected to live like a monk on their gap year, it is important to bear in mind the implications of overindulgence.

Check out THE INNER WORLD: THE LAST WIND MONK on PS4 this coming week.

Not exact matches

As they typed and clicked, a chaotic scene unfolded on the gargantuan screens above them: A monk, an archer, and a swashbuckling lady assassin were closing in on a cyborg.

Prakru Samuteerapisut Sarathamma poses with some novice monks in the flooded Komut Puttarangsi Temple in the Taweewattana District on the western outskirts of Bangkok.

While the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist monk, does not often speak about business explicitly, choosing instead to focus on teachings about compassion and peace, he sounded a lot like an aging CEO preparing to pass the reins.

While the company has a good safety reputation, Monks says, the company's return on capital numbers are manufactured.

The prototypical meditator is a monk sitting for endless hours or the dedicated practitioner spending silent weeks away on retreats.

«[A] most every kind of public policy decision [today is] made as a matter of a cost - benefit ratio,» governance advocate Robert A. G. Monks, explained in a 2008 interview published on the website Social Funds.

On the other end of the spectrum were the Engaged Mindfulness Zones manned by Buddhist monks, set up on Howard StreeOn the other end of the spectrum were the Engaged Mindfulness Zones manned by Buddhist monks, set up on Howard Streeon Howard Street.

In the basement of Holt Renfrew's flagship location on Bloor Street in Toronto, he assesses the collection of designer footwear, handling a pair of Salvatore Ferragamo monk straps like an archeologist examining an artifact.

Thai police, meanwhile, are on the lookout for a gang targeting Buddhist monks with a bitcoin scam.

The gang is approaching monks with promises of handsome profits on bitcoin investments, falsely claiming that a senior monk has already invested and urging the targets to invite others, according to local reports.

On the roof of the church, here in the middle of the Old City of Jerusalem, a group of African monks has set up their own village!

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 book, the pope claims the Christian calendar is based on a mistake by a sixth century monk, who was several years off in his calculation of Jesus's birth date.

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.

A New York Times article tells the story of the women who run the organizational side of LaserMonks, along the way describing the hobbies that many of the monks have but neglecting to mention that the monks do their heavy share of manual labor in the business and on their property.

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.

• The Cistercian monks of Our Lady of Spring Bank primarily support themselves by selling printer ink, dog biscuits, and monastic goods on a website called LaserMonks.com.

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.

And so the Armenians clang the bells of their upstairs chapel, the Franciscan organist eggs on the Latin chanting of his flock, and Ethiopian monks march to the beat of their own drummer.

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.

The Benedictine model of monasticism, with its stress on ora et labora, undoubtedly attributed great dignity to manual labor, though the first duty of the monk was always the Divine Office, called his «Opus Dei.»

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.

Tibetans - in - exile hold a candlelight vigil following the self - immolation attempt by a monk in Kathmandu on February 13, 2013.

[27] John Damascene or of Damascus (657 - 749) monk and theologian, 2 On the Virtues and the Vices, (in The Philokalia).

Many of the writers on spirituality were directing their thoughts to monks and nuns, but we notice a surprising moderation in their remarks («reasonable distress», «little by little»).

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.»

The stage is set, and what follows is Eco at his best — arcane debates on the medieval problem of universals or the poverty of Christ interspersed with monks thrown off balconies and poisoned by secret books.

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.

His inquisitiveness inevitably displeases the powers that be, and we soon learn the deaths are themselves a punishment met on overly curious monks.

Some of the monks practiced extreme austerities, including those, like St Simeon Stylites (c390 - 459), who lived on the top of a pillar.

a retired franciscan monk in USA said recently that children offered themselves to the clergy.CNN did the story on it.

Simon said in the course of their centuries - old tradition on the mountain, the monks viewed it as just a speed bump.