During this period, the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola had become prior of the San Marco monastery in 1490.

trip to Florence, he met Angelo Poliziano, the courtly poet Girolamo Benivieni, and probably the young Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola.

For many, the rise to power in Florence of the austere monk Girolamo Savonarola in 1494-1498 marks the end of the city's flourishing ; for others, the triumphant return of the Medici marks the beginning of the late phase in the arts called Mannerism.

The eclipse of this period of relative artistic and erotic freedom was precipitated by the rise to power of the moralizing monk Girolamo Savonarola.

After 1480 the singing of laude was extremely popular in Florence, since the monk Savonarola ( and others ) had prohibited the dissemination of any other style of sacred vernacular music.

Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

The monk apparently visited him frequently, and on fixed days brought him food.

Furthermore, he sent the Roman monk Augustine of Canterbury to Britain on a missionary journey, on which Augustine may have brought manuscripts.

Depending on where the monk stayed and trained, they may have brought esoteric Buddhist material and training back to Japan, or not.

The founder of Shingon Buddhism was Kukai, a Japanese monk who studied in China in the 9th century during the Tang Dynasty and brought back Vajrayana scriptures, techniques and mandalas then popular in China.

Women were forbidden to join with men during the time of prayer ; fasting on Sunday was condemned ; no one was to retreat at home or in the mountains during Lent ; the Eucharist was to be taken in church and not brought home ; excommunicated persons were not to be sheltered by bishops ; a cleric was forbidden to become a monk on the motivation of a more perfect life ; no one was to assume the title " doctor " ( Latin for teacher ); women were not to be accounted " virgins " until they had reached the age of forty.

In 412, the Chinese Buddhist monk Faxian landed at Laoshan, on the southern edge of the Shandong peninsula, and proceeded to Qingzhou to edit and translate the scriptures he had brought back from India.

Shingon, brought to Japan by the monk Kūkai, emphasizes Esoteric Buddhism.

After some centuries out of favor, Hermeticism was reintroduced to the West in 1460, when the monk Leonardo da Pistoia brought the Corpus Hermeticum to Pistoia to be translated by Ficino.

* A large wooden Chinese pagoda tower that once stood at a monastery in this sector of the city, which held the supposed ' Buddha's teeth ' brought by a pilgrim monk who traveled from India.

The impetus for this revival came in the mid 1400's when Leonardo de Candia Pistoia a Byzantine monk, brought in 1460 the Hermetica manuscript and the 14 books called Corpus Hermeticum to the court of Cosimo de ' Medici, ruler of Florence, who later requested the Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino, a member of the de ' Medici's court, who published a collection of thirteen tractates in 1471, as De potestate et sapientia Dei.

The Synod of Diospolis therefore concluded: " Now since we have received satisfaction in respect of the charges brought against the monk Pelagius in his presence and since he gives his assent to sound doctrines but condemns and anathematises those contrary to the faith of the Church, we adjudge him to belong to the communion of the Catholic Church.

Pure Land sutras were brought from the Gandhāra region to China as early as 147 CE, when the Kushan monk Lokakṣema began translating the first Buddhist sūtras into Chinese.

In 1779, priest Partenije Popović became a monk of the Saint Mark Koriški Monastery, to where he brought several important books.

Famous individuals connected with Edessa include: Jacob Baradaeus, the real chief of the Syriac Miaphysites known after him as Jacobites ; Stephen Bar Sudaïli, monk and pantheist, to whom was owing, in Palestine, the last crisis of Origenism in the 6th century ; Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, a fertile writer ( d. 708 ); Theophilus the Maronite, an astronomer, who translated into Syriac verse Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ; the anonymous author of the Chronicon Edessenum ( Chronicle of Edessa ), compiled in 540 ; the writer of the story of " The Man of God ", in the 5th century, which gave rise to the legend of St. Alexius, also known as Alexius of Rome ( because exiled Eastern monks brought his cult and bones to Rome in the 10th century ).

A Japanese monk named Gonsō ( 勤操 ) had brought back to Japan from China an esoteric mantra of Akasagarbha known as the Kokūzō-gumonjihō ( 虚空蔵求聞持法, lit.

The Tiantai teaching was first brought to Japan by the Chinese monk Ganjin ( 鑑眞 ) in the middle of the 8th century, in what became the short-lived Ritsu school, but it was not widely accepted.

Pure Land sūtras were brought from the Gandhāra region to China as early as 147 CE, when the Kushan monk Lokakṣema began translating the first Buddhist sūtras into Chinese.

In 384, the Indian monk Marananta arrived in Baekje and the royal family received the similar strain of Buddhism he brought.

One of the earliest spiced biscuits was gingerbread, in French pain d ' épices, meaning " spice bread ", brought to Europe in 992 by the Armenian monk Grégoire de Nicopolis.

Like all abbeys, Bec maintained annals of the house, but uniquely its first abbots also received individual biographies, brought together by the monk of Bec, Milo Crispin.

" The Story of the Prohibition of the Ordination of Pandaka " from the Vinaya explains that the ban is a response to the example of a monk with an insatiable desire to be sexually penetrated by men, who requested and received this from some animals handlers, who then in turn related the incident to the wider community and brought disgrace upon the sangha.

There he studied under Gyōhyō ( 722-797 ), a disciple of Tao-hsiian ( 702-760 ), the Chinese monk who had brought Northern School Ch ' an, Kegon ( Chin., Hua-yen )

In 625, the Korean monk Ekan brought the Sanlun school to Japan, where it was known as Sanron.

In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the eighth-century monk Bede lists Aethelberht as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Islip had designed the foundation for secular clergy ; but when he died in 1366, Islip's successor, Simon Langham, a man of monastic training, turned the leadership of the college over to a monk.

It is said that on this occasion Wycliffe served as theological counsel to the government, composed a polemical tract dealing with the tribute, and defended an unnamed monk over against the conduct of the government and parliament.

The kind of men with whom Wycliffe dealt included the Carmelite monk John Kyningham over theological or ecclesiastical-political questions.

There is a possibility that Pope Agatho is this monk, but this would make him over 100 years old at the time of his election, and as such must be considered unlikely without further evidence to support a connection.

He had now taken over the position of commander-in-chief of the armed forces and during his absence at his headquarters at Mogilev, he had left most of the day-to-day government in the hands of the Empress who was intensely unpopular, owing to her German origin and the influence that Rasputin, an unsavoury monk, was thought to exercise over her.

When creating this chapel the monks of Peterborough had thought of how they had acquired it and built into the chapel a narrow tower-just big enough for a monk to climb to the top by an internal stair and stand guard over Oswald's Arm 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

Before he became a monk, Simon handed his county of the Vexin over to King Philip.

But when Wihtred died in 725, and Ine abdicated his throne the following year to become a monk in Rome, Æthelbald was free to establish Mercia's hegemony over the rest of the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber.

An editor of his works, Father Lequien, demonstrated however that John of Damascus was already a monk at Mar Saba before the dispute over iconoclasm broke out, a fact which renders the story all the more improbable.

When the monk temporarily left and asked Miki to take over, she was possessed by the One god ( Tenri-O-no-Mikoto ), who demanded that Miki be given to god as a shrine.

During this hospitalization Tsuji came to idealize the Buddhist monk Shinran and read the Tannishō many times over.

According to Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a history of the English church written by the 8th-century monk Bede, there were seven early Anglo-Saxon rulers who held imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms.

The mantle worn by a simple monk or nun is black ( black being the traditional monastic color, symbolizing mourning over one's sins and a reminder of the vow of poverty ), joined at the neck and hanging down to the feet.

He was educated by a certain Tigernach, and having become a monk in 1052 he crossed over to the continent of Europe in 1056, and his subsequent life was passed in the abbeys of St Martin at Cologne and of Fulda, and at Mainz.

Theobald was more successful in securing the election of William, who had previously been a monk at Christ Church, to be Abbot of Evesham over the objections of some of the monks of Evesham.

The so-called Vita S. Swithuni of Lantfred and Wulfstan, written about 1000, hardly contain any biographical fact ; all that has in later years passed for authentic detail of Swithun's life is extracted from a biography ascribed to Goscelin of St Bertin's, a monk who came over to England with Hermann, bishop of Salisbury from 1058 to 1078.

In 1967 he and Akong Rinpoche were invited by the Johnstone House Trust in Scotland to take over a meditation center on the departure of the western Theravadan monk named Anandabodhi, which then became Samye Ling, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the West.

During the early Tang dynasty, between 629 and 645, the monk Xuanzang journeyed to India and visited over one hundred kingdoms, and wrote extensive and detailed reports of his findings, which have subsequently become important for the study of India during this period.

On 21 July 1553, 120 warrior monks led by the Shaolin monk Tianyuan defeated a group of pirates and chased the survivors over ten days and twenty miles.

Only upon encountering a Buddhist monk named Revata was Buddhaghosa bested in debate, first being defeated in a dispute over the meaning of a Vedic doctrine, and then being confounded by the presentation of a teaching from the Abhidhamma.

Before he went to China, Kūkai had been an independent Buddhist monk in Japan for over a decade.