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Bhikkus and Bhikkunis ( monks and nuns, respectively ), on the other hand, who have taken the ten vows as part of taking refuge and becoming ordained, cannot imbibe any amount of alcohol or other drugs, other than pharmaceuticals taken as medicine.
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* Suttavibhanga-Full list of rules for Bhikkus and Bhikkunis along with " origin stories " for each one.
Bhikkus and .
The resuscitation of the Sinhalese Sangha after the destructive effects of the Chola conquest owned a great deal to Bhikkus from upper Burma sent over for this purpose by the Burmese King at the request of Vijayabahu I.
Bhikkus, there are countless philosophies, doctrines, and theories in this world.
Bhikkus, don ’ t fall into that bewitching net.
* The Five storeyed " Arama " where sixty Buddhist Bhikkus resided, with a Sangha Nayaka ( a high priest ) as the chief incumbent.
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Mahayana had gods, and magic, a pantheon, heavens and hells, and gorgeously appareled priests, monks, and nuns, all of whom wielded power over souls in the other world.
Historically, in some Celtic monasteries abbesses presided over joint-houses of monks and nuns, the most famous example being Saint Brigid of Kildare's leadership in the founding of the monastery at Kildare in Ireland.
Buddhist monks and nuns of most traditions are expected to refrain from all sexual activity and take vows of celibacy ; lay people, however, are not expected to refrain from any specific form of sexual activity, and there is no concept of sinfulness attached to sex.
Since the beginnings of the Buddhist community, monks and nuns have had to commit themselves to Five Precepts of moral conduct.
Benedictine abbots and abbesses have full jurisdiction of their abbey and thus absolute authority over the monks or nuns who are resident.
Benedictine monks who have not been ordained and all nuns are members of the laity among the Christian faithful.
While the precepts for monks and nuns differ somewhat depending on which tradition one has ordained in ( Tibetan, Thai Theravadan, etc.
In the mid-Tang Buddhism reached its peak, and reportedly there were 4, 600 monasteries, 40, 000 hermitages and 260, 500 monks and nuns.
In 845 Emperor Wuzong ordered the Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution, confiscating the riches and returning monks and nuns to lay life.
Celibacy was advocated as an ideal rule of life for all monks and nuns by Gautama Buddha, except for Japan where it is not strictly followed due to historical political developments following the Meiji Restoration.
Celibacy not only for religious and monastics ( brothers / monks and sisters / nuns ) but also for bishops is upheld by the Catholic Church traditions.
When monks and nuns who follow the Theravadan way feed themselves by alms, they must eat leftover foods which are given to them, including meat.
( The Pali / Sanskrit term for monks and nuns means " one who seeks alms ".
) The exception to this alms rule is when monks and nuns have seen, heard or known that animal ( s ) have been specifically killed to feed the alms-seeker, in which case consumption of such meat would be karmically negative.
Buddhist vinaya for monks and nuns prohibits harming of plants.
# Forbids monks and nuns from marrying on pain of excommunication.
Celibacy is required of monastics — monks, nuns and friars — even in a rare system of double cloisters, in which husbands could enter the ( men's ) monastery while their wives entered a ( women's ) sister monastery.
The Five Precepts of the Daoist religion include No Sexual Misconduct, which is interpreted as prohibiting extramarital sex for lay practitioners and marriage or sexual intercourse for monks and nuns.
In this caricature, monks and nuns enjoy their new freedom after the decree of 16 February 1790
Lewis's tale appalled some contemporary readers ; however his portrayal of depraved monks, sadistic inquisitors and spectral nuns, and his scurrilous view of the Catholic Church was an important development in the genre and influenced established terror-writer Anne Radcliffe in her last novel The Italian ( 1797 ).
Continuous persecution in the 1930s resulted in its near-extinction as a public institution: by 1939, active parishes numbered in the low hundreds ( down from 54, 000 in 1917 ), many churches had been leveled, and tens of thousands of priests, monks and nuns were persecuted and killed.
Jain monks and nuns practice complete abstinence from any sexual activity.
For monks and nuns, non-possession involves complete renunciation of property and human relations.
Householders are encouraged to practice five cardinal principles of non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy, and non-possessiveness with their current practical limitations, while monks and nuns have to observe them very strictly.
Praying by reciting this mantra, the devotee bows in respect to liberated souls still in human form ( arihants ), fully liberated souls forever free from rebirth ( siddhas ), spiritual leaders ( Acharyas ), teachers, and all the monks and nuns.
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Kammu also sponsored the travels of the monks Saichō and Kūkai to China, from where they returned to found the Japanese branches of, respectively, Tendai and Shingon Buddhism.
A branch of the Order of Cistercians, they have communities of both monks and nuns, commonly referred to as Trappists and Trappistines, respectively.
To Luxeuil came such monks as Conon, abbot of Lérins Abbey to prepare for the reform of his monastery, and Saints Wandregisel and Philibert, founders respectively of the abbeys of Fontenelle and Jumièges in Normandy, who spent years in studying the rule observed in monasteries which derived their origin from Luxeuil.
Ten Precepts are the training rules for samaneras and samaneris, novice monks and nuns, respectively.
Orders of military monks such as the Knights Templar or Hospitaler wore mantles respectively of white ( with red crosses on the shoulder ) or black ( with white crosses ) over the usual pattern of armour for their periods.
The Gothic period marks a transition from the medieval to the Renaissance and is characterised by the styles and attitudes nurtured by the influence of the Dominican and Franciscan order of monks, founded by Saint Dominic and Saint Francis of Assisi respectively.
In this litany seven processions, of clergy, laymen, monks, nuns, matrons, the poor, and children respectively, starting from seven different churches, proceeding to hear mass at St. Maria Maggiore.
Common subjects of Shih-te's poems include back-sliding monks and the foolishness of worldly people in both short-sightedness and their sins ; like in Poems 43, 38 and 30, respectively:
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An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.
Sometimes the monks were directly subject to the lay abbot ; sometimes he appointed a substitute to perform the spiritual functions, known usually as dean ( decanus ), but also as abbot ( abbas legitimas, monasticus, regularis ).
Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Italy ( about to the east of Rome ), before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy.
According to Jocelin of Brakelond, in 1198 during a fire at the abbey of St Edmundsbury ( now Bury St Edmunds ), the monks ' ran to the clock ' to fetch water, indicating that their water clock had a reservoir large enough to help extinguish the occasional fire.
One of the most noticed and best reviewed films of 2010 was the drama Of Gods and Men ( Des dieux et des hommes ), about the Assassination of seven monks in Tibhirine, Algeria.
Having in mind the example of our fathers and discharging the duty of our pastoral office, we decree that churches and their possessions, as well as the persons connected with them, namely, clerics and monks and their servants ( conversi ), also the laborers and the things they use, shall remain safe and unmolested.
He refers to the monks of the Mahavihara as the " Hīnayāna Sthaviras " ( Theras ), and the monks of the Abhayagiri Vihara as the " Mahāyāna Sthaviras ".
The chief theological opponents of iconoclasm were the monks Mansur ( John of Damascus ), who, living in Muslim territory as advisor to the Caliph of Damascus, was far enough away from the Byzantine emperor to evade retribution, and Theodore the Studite, abbot of the Stoudios monastery in Constantinople.
During fasting one immerses oneself in religious activities such as worshipping, serving the saints ( monks and nuns & to be in their proximity ), reading scriptures, meditating, and donating to the right recipients.
Praying by reciting this mantra, the devotee bows in respect to liberated souls still in human form ( Arihantas ), fully liberated souls forever free from rebirth ( Siddhas ), spiritual leaders ( Acharyas ), teachers ( Upadyayas ) and all the monks ( sarva sadhus ) and nuns ( sadhvis ).
The French Benedictine monks of the Keur Moussa Abbey ( Senegal ), who possibly were the first to introduce guitar machine heads instead of leather rings in the late seventies, conceived a method based on scores to teach the instrument.
* St. Sabbas the Sanctified organized the monks of the Judean Desert in a monastery close to Bethlehem ( 483 ), now known as Mar Saba, which is considered the mother of all monasteries of the Eastern Orthodox churches.
The writings in these codices, dating back to the 2nd century AD, comprised 52 mostly Gnostic tractates ( treatises ), believed to be a library hidden by monks from the nearby monastery of St Pachomius when the possession of such banned writings, denounced as heresy, was made an offence.
Intolerance towards Nichiren Buddhism did not cease after Nichiren ’ s death ( 1282 ), and the most famous persecution was the violent attacks on Nichiren temples in the 16th century, Kyoto, Japan: “ Nichiren temples in Kyoto were attacked by the monks from Mt.
Francia banned religious orders, closed the country's only seminary, " secularized " monks and priests by forcing them to swear loyalty to the state, abolished the fuero eclesiástico ( the privilege of clerical immunity from civil courts ), confiscated church property, and subordinated church finances to state control.
When he caught an epidemic disease ( probably plague ), he called the monks, strengthened their faith, and appointed his successor.
Under the great inspiration of Saint Anthony the Great ( 251-356 ), ascetic monks led by Saint Pachomius ( 286-346 ) formed the first Christian monastic communities under what became known as an Abbot, from the Aramaic abba ( father ).
In Mahayana Buddhism, the Samgha includes laymen ( Upasaka ), laywomen ( Upasika ) as well as monks ( Bhikshu ) and nuns ( Bhikshuni ).
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