Sentences with phrase «where monks»

Day 9 Early morning «Soon» offering, where monks line the streets to receive food donations from local people.

«My single favourite memory from that trip came after I pulled the swans out at a lake where some monks were swimming.

A large hall where the monks pray and in the front you see a large Buddha statue.

It's a kaleidoscope of colourful prayer flags and trinket stalls where monks and farmers jostle for position on the pilgrim path that surrounds it.

St. Bernard The St. Bernard originated in Switzerland, where monks are said to have bred these large dogs since the 17th century.

In the end, there were four scenes: A serf's house where the men discussed the tragedy while a mother nursed a dying child; an apothecary's store, where members of the medical profession debated cures for the plague; a church, where monks considered causes of the illness while they worked on illuminated manuscripts and where a priest was indifferent to a parishioner's pleas for help; and finally, a central market square where traveling Franciscan monks declared their beliefs about the plague, flagellants whipped themselves and blamed the Jews, and an old woman went crazy as she ranted about «the end of the world.»

They're thirsty, too, in Bethlehem, where monks and nuns and men with guns are barricaded together in the Church of the Nativity.

We do have a couple of cases where monks rebelled against this.»

Rules regulating the begging for a couch occupy fifteen pages, for clothes, nine pages, and at least two pages are used to indicate places where the monk or nun «should not ease nature.»

Following decades of use in areas where monk fruit grows, this natural no - calorie sweetener is now more widely available.

Not exact matches

This monk and interfaith scholar's approach to happiness is simple: slow down, look where you're going, and above all, be grateful.

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

The Christian monks stripped her naked and dragged her through the streets to the newly Christianised Caesareum church, where she was brutally killed.

What makes you think that a monk who wrote the bible 1000 years ago (when most people were illiterate) knows anything more about a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years than we do today, when we all can't even agree on where President Obama came from today?

In the Jesus Gospel he discusses long journeys east of the desert where,»... there I encountered great wisdom and peace among the monks.

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.

«We all know that if you engage in certain kinds of exercise on a regular basis you can strengthen certain muscle groups in predictable ways,» Davidson says in his office at the University of Wisconsin, where his research team has hosted scores of Buddhist monks and other meditators for brain scans.

The men travelled to continental Europe where they became monks and founded monasteries, before returning to Britain to carry out their ministry.

Many Christians did not agree with this decision, and in 457 «Jerusalem was occupied by an army of monks [where] in the name of the one incarnate nature, they pillaged, they burnt, they murdered; the Sepulchre of Christ was defiled with blood.»

It is like the story of a monk who was reading Scripture, when all of a sudden, he slammed the book shut, walked briskly out of the monastery with the Bible under his arm and took it to the nearest bookseller, where he sold it.

To escape Mongol rule many Christians migrated northward, where numbers of monks established themselves and began to spread the faith.

It also featured extensively in later legend as the place where the prophet Muhammad met the Christian monk Bahira, who acknowledged his prophetic destiny.

Such a recitation of the canon could only take place at an occasion such as the Sixth Council of Buddhism, where thousands of monks were occupied for a long period of time reciting the sutras consecutively.

Each monk had a separate hermitage where he meditated, prayed, and worked.

The interest in Asian religion so manifest in the 1960s can be traced back to his time at Columbia University in the 30s, where he discussed oriental scriptures with a Hindu monk, Mahabarata Bramachari, who also urged him to read Christian mystical literature, such as the Confessions and the Imitation of Christ.

Also known as luo han guo, which means monk fruit in Chinese — it is said to have been first discovered and used by Chinese monks in the Guilin region where Layn is headquartered - the low calorie, natural sweetener could give stevia a run for its money.

The process of even finding a site for a new stadium has been long and laborious, but between the two Wembley finals last season, the go - ahead for a new ground at the out - of - town site at Monks Cross — where the city's professional Rugby League side, the Knights, play — was finally given and work is expected to begin shortly with the plan to be in it for the start of the 2013 - 14 season.

Top stuff Ned Although i don't know where you find the time for all this research, given all the Monkish things Monks get up to.

We played for a while on a gorgeous little crescent of beach, in the shadow of cliffs that contain caves where acetic monks once lived.

Researchers report in Conservation Letters this week that the monk seal population in Hawaii's Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument is shrinking by about 4 percent a year, while a sub-population of monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands next door — where fishing, development and boat activity are permitted — is increasing by 7 percent a year.

This story spread through Buddhist circles, making its way to the United States, where Brother David Steindl - Rast, a Benedictine monk, heard it.

«From my experience, there is too much of a priesthood in science where the upper level of the clergy tells the budding monks that they should think not of the material world,» he says.

One morning last September, a warm red sun rose behind Monks Mound, inching above the level terrace where a tribal palace once stood, burning the mist off the flat green expanses of former plazas.

The monks wrote of a coffee trade between Yemen and Ethiopia, where the beans originated.

KNOXVILLE — A study of aggression in monk parakeets suggests that where they stand in the pecking order is a function of the bird's carefully calibrated perceptions of the rank of their fellow - feathered friends.

But where does monk fruit come from, and is this sweetener actually good for you?

Prem's spiritual journey began in service as a sannyasin (monk) for 24 years in the Sivananda Organization where he was the director of the New York City and London centers.

Monk fruit extract is a popular sweetener in China and Thailand, where it's also considered traditional medicine — in fact, monk fruit gets its name because Chinese monks used to be the main ones who grew the plants.

«I had seen him in a movie called «Black Death», where he played a medieval, novice monk.

Movie: A few clues lead the Wolfpack to a police station, where they pick up a silent monk who definitely isn't Teddy.

Fast forward 60 years later, where in the United States, the monk finds himself still on the run from Strucker and his henchmen, led by Strucker's daughter, Nina.

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

When traditional medicine fails him, the bitter and defeated Strange goes looking for a miracle cure in Nepal, where he's introduced to the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), a powerful sorcerer who commands a mysterious order of warrior monks, including Karl Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Wong (Benedict Wong), charged with protecting Earth from supernatural threats.

It opened an inquiry into the school in 2016, investigating approaches to safeguarding and how allegations of abuse were handled at the private Catholic boarding school, where three monks and two teachers have been convicted of sex crimes against more than 30 pupils between 1960 and 2010.

As the thin monk, just twenty - three years old, usually luminous with energy, paced slowly along the path, he was successfully avoiding returning to his small whitewashed palace, especially the Audience Hall, where he held his meetings.

When Monks is untied and steps out, he sees he's been brought to a remote off - the - grid community where paramilitary training and methamphetamine make for combustible, uneasy bedfellows — and that Glenn has fallen under the spell of a disenfranchised countercultural sociopath known simply as Freeboot, who claims that a revolution «of the people» is already under way.

Later on, pugs were spread to other parts of Asia with wandering Buddhist monks who brought them to Tibet, where pugs were kept in monasteries.

After the blessing of the wildlife, the Monks will step outside to a tent where they will meet local animal lovers who wish to have their pets blessed.

In the sparsely populated Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where their largest population is found,» National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lead scientist for monk seal recovery Charles Littman reported what he called, «The highest levels that we've seen in decades, and in some places, the highest levels in survival that we've seen in 30 years.»

Second, this is where my love and obsession with Buddhist monks first began.