He reassured the monks of his intentions, and in September 1127, he personally installed Seniorectus as abbot.

The proven origins are that in the 960s or early 970s, Saint Dunstan, assisted by King Edgar, installed a community of Benedictine monks here.

He was soon installed in a new Norman castle at Bramber, to guard the strategically important harbour at Steyning and so began a vigorous boundary dispute and power tussle with the monks from Fécamp Abbey, in Normandy to whom King William I had granted Steyning, brought to a head by the Domesday Book, completed in 1086.

The number of temples was reduced, restrictions on membership in the sangha were installed, and Buddhist monks and nuns were literally chased into the mountains, forbidden to mix with society.

In September of the same year, he was made Bishop of Durham by the king, overruling the choice of the monks, who had elected and actually installed their sub-prior, Robert de Graynes.

Recent visitors to the campus include Japanese and Cuban drummers, New Orleans jazz musicians, and Buddhist monks who installed an environmental art work at Lower Pond.

The oriel window was installed inside the church of St Bartholomew the Great in the 16th c. by William Bolton, allegedly so that he could spy on the monks.

There he arranged for the expelled monks and nuns to return to their houses ; the king's newly installed tenants were driven out and Catholic observance resumed.

After the Liberal Revolution ( 1820 ) and the suppression of religious orders in Portugal ( 1834 ), the monks were expelled from the monastery and the Portuguese Parliament was installed in the building, then called Palácio das Cortes or Parlamento.

Shaolin monks have been featured on Fight Science, a National Geographic television series, performing feats of strength, endurance, and martial arts.

In the third season of the science fiction television series, Babylon 5, a group of monks hailing from the New Melleray Abbey take up residence at the space station.

In Pimen's cell the soft prayers of the monks, heard from offstage, not only help to set the scene but emphasize the contrast between young Grigori's thoughts and his situation.

* 1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance.

* Persian hordes led by Shah-Abbas kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia, and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.

During the first year, the monks set about constructing lodging areas and farming the lands of Cîteaux, making use of a nearby chapel for Mass.

However, Bede speaks of " the monastery of Bangor, in which, it is said, there was so great a number of monks, that the monastery being divided into seven parts, with a superior set over each, none of those parts contained less than three hundred men, who all lived by the labour of their hands.

It includes the patimokkha, a set of rules ( 227 for monks in the Theravādin recension ).

Only a few monks and nuns lived in conspicuous luxury, but most were very comfortably fed and housed by the standards of the time, and few any longer set standards of ascetic piety or religious observance.

The great library of Nalanda University was so vast that it is reported to have burned for three months after the invaders set fire to it, sacked and destroyed the monasteries, and drove the monks from the site.

After the community had settled in Durham, St-Calais named Eadwine as prior, and arranged for lands to be set aside to support the monks.

Walsingham gives a lengthy ( and most likely invented ) ' confession ' in which Straw states that the insurgents ' plans were to kill the king, " all landowners, bishops, monks, canons, and rectors of churches ", set up their own laws, and set fire to London.

Encouraged by the invasion, monks ( usually from France or Normandy ) such as the Cistercian Order also set up monasteries throughout Wales.

The Pixie Day legend originates from the early days of Christianity, when a local bishop decided to build a church in Otteri ( Ottery St. Mary ), and commissioned a set of bells to come from Wales, and to be escorted by monks on their journey.

After a solemn display of the monks ’ entry, reading of the sutras, and blowing of horns, the tens of thousands of figurines are then set aflame.

The Jogye order instituted a set curriculum of scriptural study, including the above-mentioned works, along with other shorter selections from eminent Korean monks, such as Jinul.

* An Overview of Korean Buddhism, a set of articles covering the history, monks ' biographies, arts, and so on.

In Umberto Eco's puzzle-mystery set in the 1320s, The Name of the Rose, there is some debate among the monks about Aristotle's Poetics ( Second Day: Prime ).

Despite the eviction law, when a mudslide destroyed the distillery in 1935, the French government assigned Army engineers to relocate and rebuild it at a location near Voiron where the monks had previously set up a distribution point.

The Pixie Day legend originates from the early days of Christianity, when a local bishop decided to build a church in Otteri ( Ottery St. Mary ), and commissioned a set of bells to come from Wales, and to be escorted by monks on their journey.

On November 9, 1965, in front of the Dag Hammarskjold Library at the United Nations in New York, he composed himself in the position of the Buddhist monks who had immolated themselves in Vietnam earlier, doused himself with gasoline, and set himself aflame.

Canons regular follow a similar, but perhaps less rigid rule than monks, following a rule set down by Saint Augustine in a letter to a convent in his diocese.

He set a challenge to the Buddhist monks that if none could meet with him in debate then they should stop beating the wood-block which signalled to the people to bring offerings to them.

The monks of Reading, under suspicion of complicity in the Abbot's alleged treason, were not given pensions normally set upon monks and nuns at the dissolution of their monasteries.

It was under Saint-Palais ' watch that Mother Theodore Guerin started an orphanage in Vincennes, the monks from Einsiedeln, Switzerland came to found an abbey and seminary in southern Indiana, St. Ann's opened as a school for Negroes and the Holy See added a suffragan diocese in northern Indiana at Fort Wayne.

Shortly after, Aethelstane emerges – not dead, but having been laid in his coffin alive by avaricious monks desirous of the funeral money.

* 1974: In Burma, during demonstrations at U Thant's funeral, 600 monks are arrested and several are bayoneted by government forces.

Buddhist monks presided over the last rites conducted during his funeral.

If the deceased is old, a three day funeral ceremony and memorial is conducted, complete with chanting from the monks.

Throughout the centuries, except for the initiated, most of the Japanese common folk knew little about its secretive doctrines and the monks of this " Mantra School " except that besides performing the usual priestly duties of prayers, blessings and funeral rites for the public, they practiced only Mikkyō ( 密教 ）, literally " secret ways " in stark contrast to all other Buddhist schools and were called upon to perform mystical rituals that could summon rain, improve harvests, exorcise demons, avert natural disasters, heal the sick and protect the state.

At the death of her husband, she is about to be sacrificed by Hindu monks as a suttee at her husband's funeral pyre.

Many reports have been made of monks in white and phantom funeral processions seen walking along this path.

The major difference between the earlier Chinese Chan funerals and Japanese Sōtō Zen funerals was that early Japanese monks made no distinction between a monastic funeral for an abbot and the funeral service for a layperson.

Zen historian Martin Collcutt asserts that “ one means by which Zen monks extended their influence in society was by the conduct of funeral services for important patrons .” By the medieval Sōtō period, only a small percentage of the funeral sermons recorded were delivered for members of the monastic order.

The progressive changes in Sōtō Zen funeral rites were not enacted by its founder, Dogen, but came about years later when Zen master Keizan encouraged Zen monks to go out into the countryside and perform funeral services for the laity.

For a lay person, the posthumous ordination part of the ritual was the most vital, because without ordaining the deceased as a Zen monk, the other funeral rites could not be performed, since Zen funeral rites did not previously exist for laypeople, but only for monks.

Since the popularization of Sōtō Zen in medieval Japan, Sōtō Zen funeral practices have been a significant point of contact between the monks and laity, and continue to play an important role in lay religious life today.

A funeral procession consisting of an achar, Buddhist monks, members of the family, and other mourners accompanies the coffin to the crematorium.