Sentences with phrase «year old monk»

«A Sidewalk Astronomer» is the story of John Dobson, an 89 - year old monk - turned - scientist who revolutionized astronomy with the invention of the Dobsonian telescope mount, which made telescopes accessible to the public on every continent.

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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.»

One of the dead Wednesday was a 15 - year - old monk, who set himself alight with two other monks in a majority Tibetan region of Sichuan Province, said the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.

A «historically unique» 800 year old stone coffin believed to have belonged to a senior monk has been damaged by visitors who put a child inside it to take a photo in a museum.

Quietly and without showing emotion, the head of the Institute, a venerable monk of more than eighty year old, asked: «Why are Christians so aggressive in their effort to convent Buddhists to Christian faith?»

Your six - year - old chatterbox could make a monk revoke his vow of silence just to say «Shhhhhh!!!»

Discovered in 2005 by monks, the 1,800 - year - old tomb sits 4.3 kilometers above sea level in the Ngari district of Tibet.

A portrait of social change as seen through the eyes of an 8 - year - old Bhutanese monk whose village is about to be connected to electricity.

Happiness / France, Finland (Director: Thomas Balmès)-- Peyangki is a dreamy and solitary eight - year - old monk living in Laya, a Bhutanese village perched high in the Himalayas.

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.

This first novel in the Noble Warriors sequence begins when sixteen - year - old Seeker's older brother is publicly humiliated and - with no explanation - exiled from the Nomana, a revered order of warrior monks.

The reason Monks has been abducted, he soon discovers, is Freeboot's own son, a four - year - old boy who is deathly ill — a conundrum for Freeboot, whose distrust of institutional America (hospitals included) borders on the psychotic.

Monks soon discovers that he has been abducted because Freeboot's four - year - old son is critically ill — a conundrum for Freeboot, whose distrust of institutional America (hospitals included) borders on the psychotic.

I have heard «experts» say three hours, based on the original suggestion of the Monks of New Skete, but do you remember how long three hours seemed when you were four years old?

The temple, home to Buddhist monks is covered with exquisite 2,000 year - old murals depicting the life and times of the Lord Buddha.

A 450 - year - old Ming Dynasty temple shares the stage with an inflatable puppet, debaucherous monks, and sumo wrestlers in George Frideric Handel's sublime opera, directed by Chinese visual artist Zhang Huan.

Turns out my dad, who is the fittest 76 - year - old on the planet and eats like a monk, had a heart attack in the middle of the night.