He had written to me about a dinner he had had with the Benedictine monks at St. Anselm's Priory in Washington.

Both monks respond to the guard's challenge with a few phrases of their begging song ; ;

The Prime Minister paid his respects to the Buddhist monks, strode rapidly among the houses, joked with the local soldiery, and made a speech.

In other words, the house-holders are encouraged to practice the five cardinal principles of non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy and non-possessiveness with their current practical limitations while the monks have to observe them very strictly.

Of course, they always and everywhere had the power of admitting their own monks and vesting them with the religious habit.

Popes and sovereigns gradually encroached on the rights of the monks, until in Italy the pope had usurped the nomination of all abbots, and the king in France, with the exception of Cluny, Premontré and other houses, chiefs of their order.

In the East he was commanded to eat with the other monks.

This permission opening the door to luxurious living, the council of Aachen, AD 817, decreed that the abbot should dine in the refectory, and be content with the ordinary fare of the monks, unless he had to entertain a guest.

The kindness of some monks supplied him with his first workshop, which was the vacant cell of a monastery.

During this period, he established contacts with the hermits and monks of the desert, including Pachomius, which would be very valuable to him over the years.

Three years later, Bernard was sent with a band of twelve monks to found a new house at Vallée d ' Absinthe, in the Diocese of Langres.

Without one official teaching on the death penalty, Thai monks are typically divided on the issue with some favoring abolition of the death penalty while others see it as bad karma stemming from bad actions in the past.

There, with the active aid of the Russian government, he at length got access to the remainder of the precious Sinaitic codex, and persuaded the monks to present it to Tsar Alexander II of Russia, at whose cost it was published in 1862 ( in four folio volumes ).

The captain would have nothing more to do with the monks ; they were thus free to go where they pleased.

# Gives authority to bishops over the monks in their dioceses, with the right to permit or forbid the foundation of new monasteries.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

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.

Sepuh ) in the Daranali province ( Manyats Ayr, Upper Armenia ) with a small convent of monks, where he remained until his death.

By the 11th century, Italian monks were flavoring crudely distilled spirits with juniper berries.

Although he lived with a mistress — Bertha of Burgundy — and was excommunicated because of this, he was regarded as a model of piety for monks ( hence his nickname, Robert the Pious ).

Some, not least the Benedictine monks of Montserrat, have identified the castle with the real sanctuary of Montserrat in Catalonia, Spain.

Hegel attributes the change to the " modern " need to interact with the world, whereas ancient philosophers were self-contained, and medieval philosophers were monks.

With the present day all difference has disappeared ; philosophers are not monks, for we find them generally in connection with the world, participating with others in some common work or calling.

By definition, the selection of poorer houses for dissolution in the First Act minimised the potential release of funds to other purposes ; and once pensions had been committed to former superiors, cash rewards paid to those wishing to leave, and appropriate funding allocated for refounded houses receiving transferred monks and nuns, it is unlikely that there was much if any profit at this stage.

Hiei monks as a potential threat or rival, as they could employ religious claims to attempt to rally the populace to their side.

It has also been influential in Mahāyāna for its inclusiveness and respect of non-clergy, as well as stating the equal role of Buddhist women, who are considered to have as much spiritual potential as ordained male monks.

As part of a program to remove all potential rivals and unite the country, warlord Oda Nobunaga ended this Buddhist militancy in 1571 by attacking Enryaku-ji, leveling the buildings and slaughtering monks.

Another potential risk is the activity of local monks, who have occupied roost caves during periods of meditation.

From the monks, Heather developed her physical body to its full potential, becoming a formidable martial artist.

Heather Douglas is a human who has accessed her full psionic potential through extreme training under the Titanian monks of Shao-Lom.

This made commercial and strategic sense as Harold did not want a Norman toehold in a potential invasion port, but William responded by swearing on a knife before setting out for England to recover it for the monks:

' Meditation monks ' are particularly revered in Thai society as possessing great virtue and as potential sources of supernatural powers.

In the Muromachi era, Buddhist monks discovered that soybeans could be ground into a paste, spawning new cooking methods using miso to flavor other foods.

* The monks of Glastonbury Abbey dig up the remains of a large knight and a blonde woman and announce to have discovered the tomb of king Arthur and Queen Guinevere.

Around 1190, Avalon became associated with Glastonbury, when monks at Glastonbury Abbey claimed to have discovered the bones of Arthur and his queen.

At a depth of 5 m ( 16 feet ) the monks discovered a massive treetrunk coffin and a leaden cross bearing the inscription: Hic jacet sepultus inclitus rex Arthurus in insula Avalonia.

The lake was dredged in the late eighteenth century and the lectern, thrown into the Abbey fishpond by the monks to save it during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was discovered.

When King John discovered that Reginald had been elected without any royal input he forced the monks to elect de Gray as archbishop.

The monks, after removing the plaster around the statue, discovered that the image was a perfectly made Buddha image from a solid piece of Jade, a precious stone.

Marston's Brewery makes use of water from the famous Burton Well, reputedly discovered by Benedictine monks in the 13th century.

It would appear that the Emperor Nicephorus I incurred George's disfavour at around the same time: in 808, Nicephorus discovered a plot against him, and punished the suspected conspirators, amongst whom were not only secular figures " but also holy bishops and monks and clergy of the Great Church, including the synkellos ... men of high repute and worthy of respect "; it is unknown whether the syncellus in question was George himself or a colleague / successor, but the attack on the clergy, including George's friends and colleagues, would not have endeared the Emperor to George, and is suggested as the motivating factor in the " pathological hatred " towards Nicephorus I in the Chronicle of Theophanes The date of his death is uncertain ; a reference in his chronicle makes clear that he was still alive in 810, and he is sometimes described as dying in 811, but there is no evidence for this, and textual evidence in the Chronicle of Theophanes suggests that he was still alive in 813.

During the reign of Donus, a colony of Nestorian monks was discovered in a Syrian monastery at Rome — the Monasterium Boetianum.

The church at Balnakeil dates back to the Culdean monks but the existing ruined church is said to have been built by the monks from Dornoch Cathedral in the 13th century ( it is also said that they discovered gold around Durness but no finds have been reported since ).

André Bareau has discovered that the earliest vinaya material common to all sects simply depicts Devadatta as a Buddhist saint who wishes for the monks to live a rigorous lifestyle.

After their church burnt down, the monks there " discovered " the tomb of " King Arthur " and were able rebuild their church.

The main historical sources are to be found in the Chinese histories ( particularly detailed during the Han and early Tang dynasties ), the accounts of several Chinese pilgrim monks, a few Buddhist histories of Hotan that have survived in Tibetan, and a large number of documents in Khotanese and other languages discovered, for the most part, early this century at various sites in the Tarim Basin and from the hidden library at the “ Caves of the Thousand Buddhas ” near Dunhuang.

Other 17th-century structures include the monks ' cells, a hospital topped with a tented church, and a chapel built over a holy well discovered in 1644.

Based upon analysis of Chinese historical records from the 4th to the 20th centuries, Benn discovered, " Although some monks did offer their bodies in periods of relative prosperity and peace, we have seen a marked coincidence between acts of self-immolation and times of crisis, especially when secular powers were hostile towards Buddhism.

André Bareau has discovered that the earliest vinaya material common to all sects simply depicts Devadatta as a Buddhist saint who wishes for the monks to live a rigorous lifestyle.

In 1953, two Franciscan monks discovered hundreds of 1st century ossuaries stored in a cave on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem.

Learning of this, Kiyomori sent men after Mochihito, who retreated to Miidera, at the foot of Mount Hiei, but discovered that the warrior monks of Miidera, for various political reasons, could not rely on the support of any other monasteries.

Tula's son Kokechu conspired against the Emperor with the high court officials and Buddhist monks in 1310 ; but their plans were discovered, the monks were duly executed, and Kokechu was exiled to Korea.

In 1367, when a novice from Mii-dera was killed at a toll barrier established by the temple of Nanzenji, warrior monks from Mii-dera set out to attack Nanzen-ji ; when the Shogun's forces were sent to quell the rebellion, they discovered Mii-dera's monks to be supported by sōhei from Enryaku-ji and Kōfuku-ji as well.