) Several monks are depicted climbing a ladder ; at the top is Jesus, prepared to receive them into Heaven.

Several Mahayana orders accept female practitioners as monks, instead of using the normal title of " nun ", and they are considered equal to male ascetics in all respects.

Several monks and three members of the lay teaching staff molested children in their care over several decades.

Several inquisitorial panels were set up to investigate the monks ' complains and a decision was made that the SSC should exercise the authority under the Sangha Act, BE 2505 ( 1962 ), section 27, to laicise Phothirak.

Several Tibetans were eventually initiated as monks and a vast translation project was undertaken translating the Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Tibetan.

Several years of her life have been spent in the homeland, and she had written to friends to alert them of our coming.

Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

Several precursor kingdoms have had an Alfonso I.

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

Several years later, Purcell would give the Herald a suburban presence it never had by purchasing the money-losing Community Newspaper Company from Fidelity Investments.

Several comic forms that had previously been a staple of movie theaters transitioned to the television.

Several years later, Henry IV died in a deep gloom as had Gregory.

The original full version of the letter, called Return of the Several Ministers dated June 15, 1692, and had already been reprinted in the fall 1692 in the final two pages of Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience.

Mather somewhat clarified the contradictory advice he had given in Return of the Several Ministers, by defending the use of spectral evidence.

Several Christians thought that Hypatia's influence had caused Orestes to reject all reconciliatory offerings by Cyril.

On March 16, 2005, KMOS, Inc. announced that it had completed all registrations with the State of Delaware to change its corporate name to Amiga, Inc. Several companies produce Amiga hardware and software today.

Several days prior to the assassination, Minerva had appeared to him in a dream, announcing she had been disarmed by Jupiter, and would no longer be able to protect him.

Several three-cylinder, two-stroke-cycle models were built while most engines had straight or in-line cylinders.

Several close associates of Ba ' athism's key ideologist Michel Aflaq have admitted that Aflaq had been directly inspired by certain fascist and Nazi theorists.

Several sources informed Paul of conflicts within the church at Corinth: Apollos ( Acts 19: 1 ), a letter from the Corinthians, the " household of Chloe ", and finally Stephanas and his two friends who had visited Paul ( 1: 11 ; 16: 17 ).

Several countries ( including the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union ) have had unique flags flown by their armed forces, rather than the national flag.

Several of these states had gained sovereignty following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.

Several days later, he came out to a group of friends at a party held at his home in Belsize Park, where he officially introduced them to his partner, David Sherlock, whom he had met in Ibiza in 1966.

Several years of bad harvests and an inadequate transportation system had caused rising food prices, hunger, and malnutrition ; the country was further destabilized by the lower classes ' increased feeling that the royal court was isolated from, and indifferent to, their hardships.

( Several Japanese computers had 63C09 CPUs clocked at 3. 58 MHz, the NTSC colorburst frequency, so the 3. 5 rating seems most likely ).

In his Essay Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities, written just after the Jacobite rising of 1745 he described how the politics of Scotland were not based on loyalty to Kings or Queens as Jacobites had said but on royal land grants given in return for loyalty.

Several months later, she called Shearer's parents and told them that she had gotten Shearer an audition for the radio show The Jack Benny Program.

Several families from Bere island, County Cork were encouraged to send emigrants to Argentina by an islander who had been successful there in the 1880s.

Several other languages such as Latino sine Flexione and Idiom Neutral had also been put forward.

Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI.

Several of the extinct Baltic languages have a limited or nonexistent written record, their existence being known only from the records of ancient historians and personal or place names.

Several of the proven archaeological sites have been only partially studied, and other sites of great potential have yet to be mapped.

Several orders, usually based upon the composite order and only varying in the design of the capitals, have been invented under the inspiration of specific occasions, but have not been used again.

Several opponents of smallpox inoculation, among them John Williams, stated that there were only two laws of physick ( medicine ): sympathy and antipathy.

Several thousand WADs have been created in total: the idgames FTP archive contains over 13, 000 files, and this represents only a fraction of the complete output of Doom fans.

Several new anime directors rose to widespread recognition, bringing with them notions of anime as not only entertainment, but modern art.

Several bands have produced songs that are only seconds in length.

Several other fortifications were constructed, making Malmö Sweden's most fortified city, but only Malmöhus remains.

Several ancient philosophers expressed the idea that nature produces a huge variety of creatures, randomly, and that only those creatures that manage to provide for themselves and reproduce successfully survive ; well-known examples include Empedocles

Several songs by Paul have been featured only on compilation releases such as Om Records's " Deep Concentration " and Bill Laswell's " Altered Beats " collections.

Several historians have interpreted the conclave to choose his successor as facing a choice between a diplomatic or a spiritual candidate, and they view Pacelli's diplomatic experience, especially with Germany, as one of the deciding factors in his election on 2 March 1939, his 63rd birthday, after only one day of deliberation and three ballots.

Several detailed studies using various methods to measure growth curves among known specimens have demonstrated that there is actually only one valid Pterodactylus species, P. antiquus.

Several dozen nearby large galaxies, with no sign of a quasar nucleus, have been shown to contain a similar central black hole in their nuclei, so it is thought that all large galaxies have one, but only a small fraction emit powerful radiation and so are seen as quasars.

Several monarchies remain, and the Middle East is the only part of the world where several large states are ruled by monarchs with almost complete political control.

Several times throughout the history of the show the Daleks have become extinct only to be ' reborn ' at a later time due to their huge fan base and iconic placement as the Doctor's greatest foes.

Several other episodes and licensed materials such as the Next Generation episode Face of the Enemy and the video game Star Trek: Starfleet Command III support this, and give the indication that the force multipliers of cloaking technology and other such secrecy is the only way they can maintain an even footing with the numerically superior Federation.

Several states ( Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana and Missouri ) allow slot machines ( as well as any casino-style gambling ) only on licensed riverboats or permanently-anchored barges.

Several mutineers were killed in the skirmish, Captain Thompson escaped only to be killed a few days later in another skirmish near the Diggers community at Wellingborough.

Several generations later, the Norman descendants of these Viking settlers not only identified themselves as French but carried the French language, and their variant of the French culture, into England in 1066.

Several Internet Typex articles say that only Vaseline was used to lubricate Typex machines and that no other lubricant was used.

Several thousand East Germans tried to go to West Germany by way of Czechoslovakia, only to have that government bar them from passing.

Several displaced persons camps were set up in the city that had suffered only 1. 4 % destruction during the bombing campaigns of World War II.