It is thought the monks of Kirkstall may have built a small chapel there during their tenure for the convenience of those in charge residing there and their tenants, but the records are uncertain.

The monastery was built with funds given by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX, after three monks, living in caves nearby, had petitioned him while he was in exile on the island of Mytilene.

During their dig they found the remains of a Benedictine chapel that was built in c. 1139 by monks from Glastonbury Abbey, a reliquary, graves and the remains of much earlier Romano-British chapels built of wood with dating evidence suggesting use by Christians before the reign of Constantine the Great.

By that time the Guelph Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, had built a bridge over the river Isar next to a settlement of Benedictine monks — this was on the Salt Route and a toll bridge.

Its first mention in historical documents in 814 AD suggests there was a church here in the 9th century, most likely built by monks who were associated with the nearby Abbey of Sant ' Antimo.

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.

Among these monks was the founder of the Lhapa subsect of the Kargyupa school, to whom is attributed the introduction of strategically built dzong.

They built a monastery at Fors, but some years later the monks moved to Jervaulx in Lower Wensleydale.

A great deal of destruction was done to the tombs over the centuries by quarrying and by their conversion for use as housing, both by monks in the Byzantine period, when some were used as churches, and later by Muslim villagers: " When the Arab village was built ; tombs were destroyed, incorporated in houses or turned into water cisterns and sewage dumps.

Some time before 1144, a monastic order began using Looe Island, and built a chapel there ; the monks may have provided a rudimentary lighthouse service using beacons.

The site where Trinity College now stands was originally occupied by Durham College, built for Benedictine monks from Durham Cathedral.

The college site on the River Cam was originally obtained from the purchase of a house from John de Crauden to house the monks during their study, and the main court was built in the college's first few decades.

This is one illustration of the technical ingenuity of the monks, who over time built up a very profitable business mining lead and iron, rearing sheep and selling wool to buyers from all over Europe.

The main building as it can be seen today was built during the 13th century AD by French Augustinian monks, and specifically during the rule of King Hugh III 1267-1284.

The hall was originally a grange and chapel built by the monks of Pontefract Priory.

In 1202, Prior and monks of St. Andrews at Fishergate, built the first church here and dedicated it to their patron saint.

Finally, Pope Innocent III ruled for the monks and ordered Walter to destroy what had been built.

Under the leadership of Norbert of Xanten, the Norbertine monks built the Grimbergen Abbey here in 1128.

The monks also challenged Bramber's right to bury people in the churchyard of William de Braose's new church of Saint Nicholas, and demanded the burial fees for themselves, despite it being built to serve the castle not the town.

The name of Pont-à-Celles appears for the first time during the 16th century, when the monks of the Park built a bridge on the Pieton river near to the church.

* Chapelle Sainte-Brigide, a small sanctuary built by Irish monks

Monksbridge was a bridge built by the monks of Totnes Priory.

The monks built a new town where three roads met: the Sheffield to Wakefield, Rotherham to Huddersfield and Cheshire to Doncaster routes.

The monks of the Bec Abbey who lived at Manor Farm in Ruislip in the 11th century owned a grange in Northwood.

In the Middle Ages, granges were agricultural centres from which the monks exploited their landscape and co-ordinated farming and industrial work. The grange was fundamental to the Cistercians ' successful expansion and management of their mountain land.

Armthorpe ( Ernulfestorp ) was recorded in the Domesday Book as being the property of the monks of Roche Abbey near Maltby, who had a grange there at which an official resided who managed this part of the estates of the establishment and who was sometimes a brother of the house: they had also an officer called their forester.

When abbots dined in their own private hall, the Rule of St Benedict charged them to invite their monks to their table, provided there was room, on which occasions the guests were to abstain from quarrels, slanderous talk and idle gossiping.

Buddhist monks and nuns of most traditions are expected to refrain from all sexual activity and take vows of celibacy ; lay people, however, are not expected to refrain from any specific form of sexual activity, and there is no concept of sinfulness attached to sex.

He is regarded as the " first master of the desert and the pinnacle of holy monks ", however, and there are monastic communities of the Maronite, Chaldean, and Orthodox churches which state that they follow his monastic rule.

In the mid-Tang Buddhism reached its peak, and reportedly there were 4, 600 monasteries, 40, 000 hermitages and 260, 500 monks and nuns.

In the only creation of cardinals promoted by him, among the twelve raised to the purple, there were two monks of his order.

" Ever since the time of Gendun Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama, who formalised the system, the Regents and other monks have gone to the lake to seek guidance on choosing the next reincarnation through visions while meditating there.

However, if there are several possibilities of the reincarnation, in the past regents and eminent officials and monks at the Jokhang in Lhasa, and the Minister to Tibet would decide on the individual by putting the boys ' names inside an urn and drawing one lot in public if it was too difficult to judge the reincarnation initially.

But just as these islands have been uninhabited from the beginning of the world, so now the Norwegian pirates have driven away the monks ; but countless sheep and many different species of sea-fowl are to be found there ..."

As is common with ancient texts, however, there are no surviving extant manuscripts of Josephus ' works that can be dated before the 11th century, and the oldest of these are all Greek minuscules, copied by Christian monks.

After Musashi left Kyoto, some sources recount that he travelled to Hōzōin in Nara, to duel with and learn from the monks there, widely known as experts with lance weapons.

Bön monasteries exist today, and the monks there practice Bön-Buddhism.

He rebuilt the church and conventual buildings, perfected the products of the scriptorium and re-established monastic discipline, so that there were 200 monks in the monastery in his day.

Apologising for having called the monks ' tenants to service in his army when there had been no national call-up, Bruce pledged that, henceforth, he would " never again " require the monks to serve unless it was to " the common army of the whole realm ", for national defence.

Oswald apparently controlled the Kingdom of Lindsey, given the evidence of a story told by Bede regarding the moving of Oswald's bones to a monastery there ; Bede says that the monks rejected the bones initially because Oswald had ruled over them as a foreign king.

Chandragiri also has memorials to numerous monks and Śrāvakas who have meditated there since the fifth century AD, including the last king of the Rashtrakuta dynasty of Manyakheta.

Once there, he worked to improve the education of the monks.

Increased endowments supported a community increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum about eighty monks, although there was also a large community of lay brothers who supported the Monastery's extensive property and activities.

For example, the Benedictine order of the Holy Cross at St Augustine's House in Michigan is a Lutheran order of monks and there are Lutheran religious communities in Sweden and Germany.

The St Edward Brotherhood of monks was organized there as well.