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    monastic


    1. ‘How many people live here?’ I asked, fascinated by the recent exchange and what it says about monastic life


    2. intimidating assemblage of monastic officials


    3. Practicing the way of the Tao does not require a solitary monastic existence, or a vow of poverty


    4. the monastic life, he had a premonition of his own death by cholera


    5. Chaturmaas with his monastic guru at Ujjaini that year


    6. one and renounce the monastic sceptre


    7. monastic life may be advisable


    8. As a rule, the upper ranks of the Church were relatively better disposed to Jews than the parish priests or the monastic and mendicant orders


    9. Other than Catholic monastic institutions, these were the most well-known American examples of Communistic existence


    10. Lansdale, in all likelihood, would have prevented the monastic seclusion into which Diem had entered with the eager help of his brother Nhu and his brother's wife, Madame Nhu

    11. Although Leoba had joined the Benedictine Order under false pretences, she was held nevertheless to be bound by our Rule, and subject to monastic authority


    12. In your last wise letter, which I have often re-read by bed-side candle, you commended use of the rod in monastic discipline


    13. Nem’s formal education had been conducted by the Brotherhood of Light, a monastic order dedicated to knowledge that splintered from the Holy Empire


    14. For example, some monastic orders have abandoned meditation as a tool for awakening


    15. He looks out over all the tents and is pleased that so many have come to recognize the gift he has to offer, and therefore have come to join his sangha (monastic order)


    16. They often regard Them as a great monastic


    17. contemplative monastic orders, and the seventh cycle would produce the


    18. Gregory Palamas refers to the Al -holy Theotokos as the first monastic, dedicated in the temple of


    19. Testament, is a fragrant flower of the desert, another prototype of monastics, and the protection of monastic


    20. At the time of his or her monastic tonsure, the monastic vows to observe the three virtues –

    21. True chastity is a revelation of the total surrender of the monastic to God


    22. The monastic virtue of poverty provides great ease, freedom and a sense of not being bound by the


    23. Perhaps a fruit of this renewal is the presence and growth of love for monastic life


    24. The monastic way of sanctification, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is one of the indicators of the Church, which has to deal with a world that is loveless, anxious, noisy and confused


    25. and even their garments or other objects are sanctified (the sacred belt of the Theotokos, the monastic cowl of


    26. In the austere monastic rule of St


    27. about his monastic life: “Neither in our heart nor in our mouth had we anything other than the word of God


    28. ; Pali: Sakyamuni; English: “sage of the Shakyas”), is the key figure in Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules were said to have been summarized after his death and memorized by the sangha


    29. gramming in the monastic confines of the AI Lab by night,


    30. Monastic silence was maintained

    31. Asceticism* or a monastic life are alien


    32. At his monastic style


    33. He intended his monastic sect to be every bit as zealous, ascetic and righteous as any future dissenters; but, he conceded, “In my country we have a saying


    34. They opened the door of the hotel and walked out into a street filled with people dressed in Nepalese garb, some in Buddhist monastic robes, and a few in Western clothing


    35. Fortunately, they were relieved to see that their monastic guide continued right past the dilapidated guesthouse to a very new building


    36. The whole experience took on the ambience of a wedding, funeral, Bar / Bat Mitzvah, confirmation, ordination, profession of monastic vows, and Baptism


    37. Francis wondered about the tradition of taking boys and girls at so young an age into monastic life


    38. Drums thundered through the monastic compound


    39. In the Tibetan monastic tradition, the monastic person in formation learns about the teachings of the Buddha, the Scriptures, and other holy books partly by debating about them in small groups


    40. The nun had grown up in Switzerland, became a Buddhist, and moved to this monastery some twenty-five years ago upon entering monastic life

    41. This monastic community was founded in the year 1409 and is one of the most spectacular sights in all of Tibet


    42. During the Cultural Revolution, however, much damage was done to the monastic complex


    43. One more shake of the Jamesway purchased backpack produced the colorful bag handed him by the monk at their earlier monastic visit


    44. I suppose a Westerner in monastic robes appearing to me in my parlor should have frightened me, but there you were and I was not frightened


    45. Francis de Sales was bishop of his diocese and had the jurisdiction to permit monastics to leave their cloister to minister to the sick and poor, but other bishops did not seem to grasp this revolutionary concept of monastic life


    46. One evening after Night Prayer, Mother de Chantal was about to go to her cell, as simple monastic sleeping rooms are sometimes called, to retire for the evening


    47. Most unusual for that hour, the Sister charged with interfacing between the monastic enclosure and “the world” came to her


    48. The postulant to monastic life was flustered, and this was rare for her


    49. Francis had on casual clothing, not his monastic habit


    50. I remember the difficulty I had in trying to help people understand the new vision of monastic life that Bishop Francis de Sales and I had for the Visitation














































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    Synonyms for "monastic"

    monastic monk cloistered cloistral conventual monastical holy person hermit recluse celibate

    "monastic" definitions

    a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work


    of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows