But the singular appearance of his companion and his attendants, arrested their attention and excited their wonder, and they could scarcely attend to the Prior of Jorvaulx' question, when he demanded if they knew of any place of harbourage in the vicinity; so much were they surprised at the half
monastic, half military appearance of the swarthy stranger, and at the uncouth dress and arms of his Eastern attendants.
"Charges brought upon the second Thursday after the Feast of the Assumption, in the year of our Lord thirteen hundred and sixty-six, against brother John, formerly known as Hordle John, or John of Hordle, but now a novice in the holy
monastic order of the Cistercians.
An extern school grew round the old almost
monastic foundation, which subsists still with its middle-age costume and usages--and all Cistercians pray that it may long flourish.
Synopsis: "Come and See: The
Monastic Way for Today" by Brendan Freeman is look inside the mind of a monk.
Maaloula is home to Saint Thecla
Monastic Complex and Saint Sarkis
Monastic Complex.
Macarius Monastery of his rank following investigating him for committing "inappropriate actions" which contradict with
monastic behavior and life.
He claimed he received ordination as a Buddhist
monastic in 1962 at Tongdo Temple.
Neilos was a saint from Calabria who exemplified Greek
monastic life in southern Italy during the 10th century, when the region had come under the control of the Byzantine Empire.
970-1046] from under the layers of later hagiography and historiography that made this tenth-century ecclesiastical leader into a representative of the Lotharingian
monastic reform movement.
Piplan, the ancient Buddhist
monastic establishment in Taxila that was named for the thick peepal trees of the area, is a Buddhist archaeological jewel located in a calm valley that has stayed hidden from local and foreign tourists and the public, despite its unique landscape.
The Venerable Dorji Lopen of the Central
Monastic Body appointed Kudung Paro, Kudung Tsho-Chen and Kudung Shar of Pungthim Dratshang in Punakha dzong.
In early Buddhism, although Buddhist discipleship diversified from an exclusively
monastic community to a fourfold assembly (parisd)-male
monastics, female
monastics, laymen, and laywomen (e.g., A.ii.132)
monastics continued to be regarded as de facto leaders in religious tasks.
Editor Lynette Olson has collated eight articles based on a colloquium held in 2013 in Sydney on the potentially earliest surviving insular life, that of the significant British
monastic and episcopal figure, St Samson of Dol.
When reading a book about the history of Buddhist monasticism in India, one does not usually come across sections on pregnant nuns, monks getting divorced, and
monastic childcare issues.
ALMOST 500 years ago what is now known as Hexham Abbey and its adjoining
monastic buildings went their separate ways.
