Sentences with phrase «practiced by monks»

Natural cleansing and healing by means of hydrotherapy, hot and cold baths, friction, compresses and enemas has been widely practiced by monks, naturopaths, doctors and ordinary folk throughout history.

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Jesus referred him to the classes of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - men damaged by the practice of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for women?)

Even if, O monks, robbers and murderers would sever one's members with a double - toothed saw, one by one, that person, if his spirit be filled with rage, would not be practicing my religion.

Domestication practices were well known by then, Andersson says, and it's possible that French monks or farmers in Southern France with a taste for rabbit meat made an effort to round up bunnies that eventually became the founding population for the domestic rabbit.

The Ultimate DIY: Self - Mummification This rare type of mummification was practiced mostly by Buddhist monks who attempted to attain divinity by purposefully preserving their bodies.

About a dozen of us — physicists, psychologists, brain scientists and clinicians, leavened by a French philosopher — introduced quantum mechanics, neuroscience, consciousness and various clinical aspects of meditative practices to a few thousand Buddhist monks and nuns.

Practiced for centuries by Thai monks, and forming a central component of Thai medicine, Thai massage is believed to have originated over 2,500 years ago in India.

Today, introductory forms of the practice, brought to the West by Tibetan monks and lamas over the past several decades, are gaining popularity here.

The ancient practice of yoga was first introduced to the Western world in the 19th century by Indian monk Swami Vivekananda.

A monk (/ m ʌ ŋ k /, from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, single, solitary and Latin monachus) is a person who practices religious asceticism by

Along the way he is helped by a comic relief monk («I'm just a friar actually,» he informs everyone whenever he is about to transgress some code of Catholic practice) and the shapely Kate Beckinsale (who played the hot vampire in Underworld and the object of Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett's affections in the crappy Pearl Harbor).

These presentations of modern masters and their tribal influences are complemented by the expanded Spotlight section, which will highlight solo artist presentations of 31 pioneers of 20th - century practice, such as Thomas Kovachevich (Callicoon Fine Arts, New York); self - taught artist Felipe Jesus Consalvos (Fleisher / Ollman, Philadelphia); Barbara Chase - Riboud (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York); and Dom Sylvester Houédard — a Benedictine monk turned counter-culture cult figure of 1960s London (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London).

First utilized by French and Italian nuns and monks during the Renaissance, quilling did not become popular until the 18th century in Europe, when women practiced leisurely art that wasn't too stressful or demanding.