His most famous surviving work is the Well of Moses ( 1395 – 1403 ), created for the Carthusian monastery of Champmol built by Philip the Bold just outside Dijon ( at the time-now part of the city ).

In China, peasant families worked monastic-owned land in exchange for paying a portion of their yearly crop to the resident monks in the monastery, just as they would to a feudal landlord.

A vast fortress-like monastery, Montmajour Abbey, was built on an island just north of Arles, and became a major destination for medieval pilgrims.

On the way, just outside the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel, the army become mired in quicksand and Harold saves two Norman soldiers .< sup >( scene 17 )</ sup > William's army chases Conan from Dol de Bretagne to Rennes, and Conan finally surrenders at Dinan .< sup >( scene 20 )</ sup > William gives Harold arms and armour ( possibly knighting him ) and Harold takes an oath on saintly relics .< sup >( scene 23 )</ sup > Although the writing on the tapestry explicitly states an oath is taken there is no clue as to what is being promised.

Jones spent much of the years 1924 to 1927 living with the Gills and assorted hangers-on in a rambling former monastery just outside Capel-y-ffin.

In 1378, Philip the Bold acquired the domain of Champmol just outside Dijon, to build the Chartreuse de Champmol ( 1383 – 1388 ), a Carthusian monastery (" Charterhouse "), which he intended to house the tombs of his dynasty.

It has been suggested that the rioters connected the saint especially with Philip II, whose monastery palace of the Escorial near Madrid was dedicated to Lawrence, and was just nearing completion in 1566.

The Rule of St Benedict is the framework of Cadfael's home monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul, just across the river Severn from Shrewsbury.

The title " king of the Anglo-Saxons " does, however, in fact occur in royal charters that date to before 892 and " parochia " does not necessarily mean " diocese ", but can sometimes refer just to the jurisdiction of a church or monastery.

On the eve of the overthrow, the various monasteries owned approximately 2, 000, 000 acres ( just under 8 100 km² ), over 16 percent of England, with tens of thousands of tenant farmers working those lands ; some of whom had family ties to a particular monastery going back many generations.

Begging ( takahatsu ) is an important part of practice for monks in Japan, but, considering that Santōka was not a member of a monastery while he journeyed, begging just for his own needs, he was often regarded with disdain and on a few occasions even questioned by the police.

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The early Christian period began in the 6th Century, with 563AD being a pivotal point as it is believed that Christianity was brought to this part of northern Britain by St. Columba, when he arrived from Ireland to set up a monastery on the Island of Iona just off the south-west point of Mull.

In France, a monastery of nuns was established by Polish nuns of the Order but it is on the verge of closure, with just one nun in residence.

He charged a man to buy them in Venice just with the purpose of equipping the monastery library with essential tools to culture.

In 310 St Grigoris, the grandson of Grigor the Illuminator, was ordained bishop of Caucasian Iberia and Caucasian Albania in the monastery of Amaras, being just 15 years old at the time.

* Spitakavor monastery of the Holy Mother of God built in 1321, located just to the north of Yeghegnadzor near Proshaberd fortress.

The great monastery temple of the Potala, loosely based on the Potala in Lhasa, was completed after just four years of work in 1771.

Martin-du-Canigou ( also " Saint-Martin-du-Canigou " or just " Canigou ", in Catalan Sant Martí del Canigó ) is a monastery built in 1009 in the Pyrenees on Canigou mountain in present day southern France near the Spanish border.

When the Tsar Boris heard about the pretender, he claimed that the man was just a runaway monk called Grigory Otrepyev ( born Yury Otrepyev ; Grigory was the name given at the monastery ), although on what information he based this claim is unclear.

* St. Bruno of Carthusia, prompted by the spectre of the damnation of the Good Doctor of Paris Cenodoxus founded a monastery just outside of Paris in the 11th Century.

Whether or not his spouse influenced him, he allowed Augustine to found a monastery just outside the walls of Canterbury to the east of the city.

The monastery can be reached by train as Sinaia railway station is just ' downstairs ' from the monastery.

In modern times, living a settled life in a monastery setting has become the most common lifestyle for Buddhist monks and nuns across the globe.

According to the UNESCO report ( 60100 ha / Ref: 954 ) and website hereunder, this monastery has been called the oldest working Christian monastery in the world – although the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, also lays claim to that title.

In 1223, Dōgen and Myōzen undertook the dangerous passage across the East China Sea to China to study in Jing-de-si ( Ching-te-ssu, 景德寺 ) monastery as Eisai had once done.

For reasons unknown, Maximus left public life and took monastic vows at the monastery of Philippicus in Chrysopolis, a city across the Bosporus from Constantinople ( later known as Scutari, the modern Turkish city of Üsküdar ).

The news of the siege spread across the nation, and in several areas guerilla units were created, outraged at the Swedes ' attempt to seize the monastery.

According to the UNESCO report ( 60100 ha / Ref: 954 ), this monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, which also lays claim to that title.

The first and original site of this monastery was probably almost due west of Sheen Palace, across the river, on the left bank of the Thames in Twickenham Parish.

The other monks in the monastery understand that the Rimpoche's saviour will arrive from across the Himalayas to rescue him from the clutches of the black magicians.

Then they turned at Penwith Tail to the south and up into the mouth of the Tamar, travelling to Lydford, burning and slaughtering anything they came across, and burned down Ordwulf's monastery at Tavistock, carrying vast amounts of loot back to their ships.

Because of its monastery and teaching centre it became a major centre for education and Celtic Church evangelism, attracting scholars from across Wales, Devon, Cornwall and Brittany and the wider world.

One of Columbanus's followers founded the monastery of St. Gall on the shores of Lake Constance, while Columbanus continued onward across the Alps to the kingdom of the Lombards in Italy.

The apprentice silently greets them and rows them across the lake to the monastery, where it is revealed that the daughter has an unspecified illness ( she displays symptoms of a fever ) and has been brought to the Buddhist master by her mother, hoping that she will be healed.

The Elisabeth Gasthuys ( later called EG ) was rebuilt on the location of a former monastery ( cellenbroers or minnebroers ) in the Groot Heiligland ( across the street from the Frans Hals Museum today ) where it operated from 1581 to 1971.

In 1944, he was interned by the Germans in the monastery at Bobbio, Genoa and had to walk back home across the mountains.

John allegedly fled across the Alps and was found in a monastery at Pisa, where in 1313 he is said to have been visited by Henry VII.

The monastery as seen from across the Kostroma River.

In the Middle Ages, the term was extended, across Europe, to refer to the building or complex of buildings attached to a monastery, where pilgrims and other lesser guests could find hospitality or hospitium, including dormitory-based accommodation.

Suzuki also taught zazen or sitting meditation which soon attracted American students and " beatniks ", who formed a core of students who in 1962 would create the San Francisco Zen Center and its eventual network of highly influential Zen centers across the country, including the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Buddhist monastery in the Western world.

From May 15-June 2, 2008, he made his first trip to the West, visiting several cities in the United States ( notably New York City, Boulder, Colorado, and Seattle, Washington ) and was formally enthroned in the North American seat of the Karmapas at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery in Woodstock, NY .< ref > video > All across the country, he gave multiple teachings on compassion and the environment, gave the reading transmission for a new form of Ngondro, and bestowed several empowerments, including Avalokiteshvara and Guru Rinpoche.

There he founded one of the first monasteries in Ireland, the monastery of Killeaney on Aran Mor, as well as several other across the island, and has since been known as the father of Irish monasticism, along with Finnian of Clonard.

The monastery is accessible by either crossing the desert from Qubbet el-Hawa or by sailing across the Nile from Aswan and then walking up the Wadi al-Qurqur.

Just out of the Poros gorge a rough vehicular track leads to the Atros monastery, the oldest on Cephalonia, with impressive views across Poros.