Such manipulations are frequently encountered in his essay on the suppression of the monasteries during the English reformation.

A monastery must have been granted the status of an abbey by the Pope, and such monasteries are normally raised to this level after showing a degree of stability — a certain number of monks in vows, a certain number of years of establishment, a certain firmness to the foundation in economic, vocational and legal aspects.

* An archabbot is the head of some monasteries which are the motherhouses of other monasteries ( for instance, St. Vincent's Archabbey, Latrobe, Pennsylvania )

There are many other places and objects worth seeing, for example a notable number of churches and monasteries, a few remarkable 17th-and 18th-century buildings in the particular Baroque style typical of the region, a collection of statues and monuments, park areas, cemeteries, among others.

Some of these Buddhist vegetarian chefs are in the many monasteries which serve wu hun and mock-meat ( also known as ' meat analogues ') dishes to the monks and visitors ( including non-Buddhists who often stay for a few hours or days, to Buddhists who are not monks, but staying overnight for anywhere up to weeks or months ).

These disciples of Columbanus are accredited with founding over one hundred different monasteries ( ib., 74 ).

# Asserts that monasteries are permanent.

A great number of these monasteries are still flourishing and have new vocations to this day.

Their monasteries, such as Saint George in Wadi Kelt and Mar Saba in the Judean Desert, are places of pilgrimage.

Russian icons are typically paintings on wood, often small, though some in churches and monasteries may be as large as a table top.

Remains of ancient Ethiopian emperors and treasures of the Ethiopian Church are kept in the isolated island monasteries ( including Kebran Gabriel, Ura Kidane Mehret, Narga Selassie, Daga Estifanos, Medhane Alem of Rema, Kota Maryam and Mertola Maryam ).

Practically all archaeological remains in the Maldives are from Buddhist stupas and monasteries, and all artifacts found to date display characteristic Buddhist iconography.

The internal styles are also known as Wǔdāngquán, named for their association with the Taoist monasteries of Wudangshan range, Hubei Province in Chinese popular legend.

The Caitika and Bahuśrutīya nikāyas are known to have had monasteries in Nāgārjunakoṇḍa.

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

* March 17 – A pogrom-like organized violence breaks out over 2 days in Kosovo ; 19 people are killed, 8000 Serbian homes burned, schools and businesses vandalized, and over 300 Orthodox monasteries and churches burned and destroyed.

More than 4, 600 monasteries and 40, 000 temples and shrines are destroyed.

* Various religious buildings are closed as part of Henry VIII of England's dissolution of the monasteries, including

There are 788 monasteries, including 386 for men and 402 for women.

Besides the Ladder, in some monasteries the Paradise of the Holy Fathers by Palladius and the penitential sermons of St. Ephrem the Syrian are read during Matins.

The 8th century St Martin's Cross on Iona There are no written accounts of pre-Christian Dál Riata, the earliest records coming from the chroniclers of Iona and Irish monasteries.

Elements of the KLA are also responsible for post-conflict attacks on Serbs, Roma, and other non-Albanians, as well as ethnic Albanian political rivals ... widespread and systematic burning and looting of homes belonging to Serbs, Roma, and other minorities and the destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries ... combined with harassment and intimidation designed to force people from their homes and communities ... elements of the KLA are clearly responsible for many of these crimes.

" A more modern geographer named 37 islands, of which he believed 19 have or had monasteries or churches on them.

He set up what was believed to be a scheme to save the Abbey ( despite his firm belief in the dissolution of the monasteries )— the sale of the abbey ’ s land and possessions.

The Great Fifth believed that they should be closed in order to insure the future stability of the ( Tibetan ) nation, and to dissuade other monasteries from engaging in warfare.

It now seems likely, that a period of domestic colonisation within Scania, that was earlier believed to have started before the Viking Age, in reality barely took place until after the Viking Age, when donations of land to monasteries led to influences from Continental Europe and a transition from a predominantly animal husbandry to grain cultivation, which entailed extensive land clearing, possibly also connected with the liberation of the thralls, that led to the creation of many new settlements with names ending in-torp ,-rup, and-röd.

It is believed to have originated as a Culdee establishment of monastic Celtic Christianity, perhaps a minor branch of the Tallaght Maelruain or Kilnamanagh monasteries.

Though Beatus may have written his commentaries as a response to Adoptionism in Hispania of the late 700s, many believe that the book's popularity in monasteries stemmed from the presence in Iberia of Islam, which the Christian religious believed to represent the Antichrist.

The natural scenery and Buddhist monasteries, such as Ki, Dhankar, Shashur, Guru Ghantal, Khungri Monastery in Pin Valley, Tnagyud Gompa of the Sakya Sect in Komic, Sherkhang Gompa in Lahlung ( believed to be older than Tabo Monastery ), the only Buddhist Mummy of a Monk in Ghuen around 550 years old and Chandrataal Lake are the main tourist attractions of the region.

Local sights include Lahor, where Pāṇini is believed to have composed the Sanskrit grammar, and near which Alexander the Great and his Greek army crossed the Indus on his way to India, Shabaz Ghari famous for the Ashoka inscriptions and Takht Bhai, the site of one of the best preserved Buddhist monasteries.

St Patrick also founded an episcopal monastery or college at Elphin, believed to be one of the first monasteries founded by him.

The Vikings pillaged monasteries on Ireland's west coast in 795 and then spread out to cover the rest of the coastline.

Two manuscripts of Astronomicon made in the 10th and 11th centuries lay hidden in monasteries, one at Gembloux in Brabant ( now in Brussels ) and another that has come to rest in the library at Leipzig.

The traditional architectural monuments in Thimphu, as in the rest of Bhutan, are of typical Bhutanese architecture of monasteries, dzongs ( most striking fortress type structures ), chortens, gateways, Lhakhangs, other sacred places and royal palaces, which are the most distinctive architectural forms of Bhutan.

At the time of the communist takeover in Tibet, there were approximately 300 Bon monasteries in Tibet and the rest of western China.

Breweries were later introduced in monasteries of other countries as the trappist order spread from France into the rest of Europe.

In Paris, all residual monasteries were closed and the rest of the religious orders were dissolved by the law of 15 August.

The rest were hidden, 5, 000 of them by the official Church − 3, 000 in Castel Gandolfo, 200 or 400 ( estimates vary ) as " members " of the Palatine Guard and some 1, 500 in monasteries, convents and colleges.

The rest were either fortified towns ( e. g., Székesfehérvár ), old committal centre castles ( e. g., Esztergom citadel ), fortified monasteries ( e. g. Tihany and Pannonhalma ) or military fortresses ( e. g. Vécs guarding a main trade route in the mountains of Transylvania.

He therefore drew up constitutions, afterwards codified, which became the norm of the life at the Studium monastery, and gradually spread thence to the monasteries of the rest of the Greek empire.

In the monasteries of Northumbria these skills fused and were probably transmitted back to Scotland and Ireland from there, also influencing the Anglo-Saxon art of the rest of England.

The rest of the district rose against the abbot, who refused to arbitrate, and blockaded his monasteries.