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• This also suggests that this deity was first adopted by the tradition of the monastery of Sa-gya, [26] a hypothesis further confirmed by the reference in the founding myth to his being taken over by the holder of the Sa-gya throne So-nam-rin-chen (bsod nams rin chen). The Shugden Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)
• Two monks are standing in the garden of the monastery, arguing over the nature of reality when the Roshi overhears them.
• If uninterrupted peace and quiet are what you crave, a week at this former monastery will deliver the goods. Times, Sunday Times
• This is true with the exception that of "Decorated" architecture there are but few examples, and it is probable that very little new work was done in connection with this cathedral until the monastery became vastly enriched by Abbot Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
• A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
• Kennaquhair, or because it agrees with scenes of the Monastery in the circumstances of the drawbridge, the milldam, and other points of resemblance, that therefore an accurate or perfect local similitude is to be found in all the particulars of the picture. The Monastery
• Born a peasant in the mountainous Cantal region of France in about 950, Gerbert entered a Benedictine monastery -- the only elementary school of his day. Nancy Marie Brown: The Abacus and The Cross: When the Pope Was A Scientist
• It was heavily funded by Otto I, who gave the abbess of the monastery much power and privilege.
• At length returning home, he obtained of Ængus, king of Munster, a grant of the isle of Arra, or Arn, wherein he founded a great monastery, in which he trained up many disciples, illustrious for sanctity, insomuch that the island was called Arran of the Saints. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
• They are half finished building a beautiful monastery enclosure and they live a truly monastic-eremetic life. Archive 2006-06-04