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, 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.

* Suttavibhanga-Full list of rules for Bhikkus and Bhikkunis along with " origin stories " for each one.

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.

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

But there are big rogues in both countries.

Nobody knows how many Southerners there are in this category.

I suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.

In the command centers there are special clocks ready to tick off the minutes elapsed since `` E hour ''.

The codes in the red box -- there are several of them covering various contingencies -- are contained in a sealed X-ray-proof `` unique device ''.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.

In Persia, where practically speaking there are no museums or libraries or, for that matter, hardly any books, the twins run free.

Their consequences are irrelevant -- or there are no consequences at all.

I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.

In fact, although we have dispelled the fear, we have not necessarily assured ourselves that there are no dangers.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.

These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.

Southern Liberals ( there are a good many ) -- especially if they're rich -- often exhibit blithe insouciance.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.

The same command is repeated as many times as there are levels in rank from general to corporal.

These assumptions lead to an organization with one man at the top, six directly under him, six under each of these, and so on until there are six levels of personnel.

For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;

This is a reasonable assumption in practice — throughout history, there are countless examples of secret algorithms falling into wider knowledge, variously through espionage, betrayal and reverse engineering.

But just as these islands have been uninhabited from the beginning of the world, so now the Norwegian pirates have driven away the monks ; but countless sheep and many different species of sea-fowl are to be found there ..."

Within the United States Graffiti Artists such as Mike Giant, Pursue, Rime, Noah and countless others have made careers in skateboard, apparel and shoe design for companies such as DC Shoes, Adidas, Rebel8 Osiris or Circa Meanwhile there are many others such as DZINE, Daze, Blade, The Mac that have made the switch to gallery artists often times not even using their initial medium, spray paint.

Sainthood in the Orthodox Church does not necessarily reflect a moral model, but the communion with God: there are countless examples of people who lived in great sin and became saints by humility and repentance, such as Mary of Egypt, Moses the Ethiopian, and of course Dysmas, the repentant thief who was crucified.

It is said that there are countless beings who have attained Buddhahood.

For what is there in common between a life lived among the favourites of Hadrian, by one who did not abstain even from unnatural lusts, and that of the venerable Jesus, against whom even they who brought countless other charges, and who told so many falsehoods, were not able to allege that He manifested, even in the slightest degree, any tendency to what was licentious?

The opening of the Hialeah Park Race Track in 1925 ( which was nicknamed the " Grand Dame ") as a horse track received more coverage in the Miami media than any other sporting event in the history of Miami up to that time and since then there have been countless horse racing histories played out at the world famous park.

One example is the spreadsheet, but there are countless others.

" Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt became aware that there were countless opportunities for any man to fall out of formation and resign from battle without notice as the jungle was often too thick in places to see through.

They suggest that there are countless subjects worth studying, more than anyone could learn within a single lifetime.

Although invertebrate embryology is similar in some ways for different invertebrate animals, there are also countless variations.

However, Graves acknowledges that there must be a delicate balance between Republican liberty and Imperial stability ; whereas too much of the former led to civil war, too much of the latter led to the corruption of Tiberius, Caligula, Valeria Messalina, Sejanus, Herod Agrippa, Nero, Agrippina the Younger, and countless others – as well as, to a lesser extent, Livia and Claudius himself.

The rock face here is well polished by countless boots, and might seem dangerous, but there are many " jugholds " which offer firm support.

Similar to Shakyamuni Buddha, Atiśa was born into royalty ; the palace in which he was raised, aptly named the Golden Banner Palace, " had a golden victory banner encircled by countless houses and there were great numbers of bathing-pools encircled by 720 magnificent gardens, forests of Tal ( Borassus flabellifer ) trees, seven concentric walls, 363 connecting bridges, innumerable golden victory banners, thirteen roofs to the central palace and thousands of noblemen ".

" Close under the Abbey of Westminster there lie concealed labyrinths of lanes and potty and alleys and slums, nests of ignorance, vice, depravity, and crime, as well as of squalor, wretchedness, and disease ; whose atmosphere is typhus, whose ventilation is cholera ; in which swarms of huge and almost countless population, nominally at least, Catholic ; haunts of filth, which no sewage committee can reach-dark corners, which no lighting board can brighten.

Brahmins were treated with great veneration in the time of the Buddha and there are countless references to Brahmins throughout the Buddhist scriptures.

Apart from countless battles and skirmishes in which the Polish cavalry units fought dismounted, there were 16 confirmed cavalry charges during the 1939 war.

Apart from these channels, there were countless other ones of varying sizes which supplied not only nutrients to various tissues but also provided passage to waste products.

In the post-war period, there was a major decline in the cotton industry, and in common with many neighbouring towns, Bury's skyline was soon very different, with countless factory chimneys being pulled down and the associated mills closing their doors forever.

As well as the national pavilions there are countless " unofficial pavilions " that spring up every year.

The schottische came to the USA from Europe and there are countless variations of the dance.

From then on there were countless stories of success in the Industrial Design Zanussi, among other things, the creation of a set of " new characters ": the prototypes “ Zoe ” ( washing machine invented in 1989 ), “ Teo ” ( electric cooker ), and “ Oz ” refrigerator manufactured in 1998.

After Dryden, the form continued to flourish, and there are countless minor mock-heroic poems from 1680 to 1780.

And getting paid to be part of such a lavish show in Chechnya trivializes the suffering of countless victims of human rights abuses there.