A majority of the theologians and all the monks opposed these measures with uncompromising hostility, and in the western parts of the Empire the people refused to obey the edict.

During the siege of Nagashima, Nobunaga suffered tremendous losses, including the death of a couple of his brothers, to the Ikkō-ikki resistance, a coalition of peasant farmers, monks, Shinto priests and local nobles that opposed samurai rule.

Although the monks of Canterbury opposed it, the king's appointment stood.

One of the oldest wine estates in Central Europe, the Lilienfelderhof ( Lilienfelder Hof ) in Pfaffstätten, 30 km south of Vienna, Austria, traces its history to an endowment made by the Babenberger Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (“ the Glorious ”) to the Cistercian monks at Lilienfeld Abbey in 1202, though the property as such ( as opposed to the endowment ) is traditionally dated to 1209.

The monks were originally opposed to the project, as the monastery likely sits on the remains of the Quetzalcoatl Temple, and they were concerned about being forced out.

The Rhinoceros Sutra ( Pāli: Khaggavisāna-sutta ; Sanskrit: Khaḍgaviṣāṇa Gāthā ; Gāndhārī: Khargaviṣana-sutra ) is a very early Buddhist text advocating the merit of solitary asceticism for pursuing enlightenment ( as opposed to practicing as a householder or in a community of monks or nuns ).

Also in 704, when Wu Zetian instituted a tax on the Buddhist monks and nuns of the realm to build a large Buddha statute, Li Jiao and Zhang Tinggui ( 張廷珪 ) opposed the project, and Wu Zetian eventually stopped it.

Pomerius had been inspired by the life of Augustine of Hippo and insisted that bishops and members of the clergy live more like monks as opposed to aristocrats.

Following the 1180 Battle of the Uji, in which Minamoto no Yorimasa fought a small Taira army with the help of monks from the Mii-dera and other temples, the victorious Taira, angry at being opposed, decided to assault and burn the Miidera, before moving on to Nara.

The Taira were opposed by warrior monks from nearly every major monastery and temple in Nara.

He was opposed by quite a number of court nobles and warrior monks from Mount Hiei and Miidera, but ultimately made it out of the city victorious, with Emperor Go-Shirakawa.

However, despite their defeat, and simply for their defiance alone, Taira no Kiyomori ordered that revenge be taken upon the monks that opposed him.

Three years later, when Minamoto no Yoshinaka betrayed his clan by storming into Kyoto, setting the Hōjōji Palace aflame and kidnapping Emperor Go-Shirakawa, he was opposed by many of the monks of Kyoto, including those from Mount Hiei.

Bloet was opposed to the other candidates, as they were monks, and he wanted a non-monk appointed at Canterbury.

* Protection monks are similar to healing monks, but they specialize in preventing damage opposed to restoring it.

The Hongan-ji was the primary fortress of the Ikkō-ikki, mobs of warrior monks, priests, and farmers who opposed Oda's rule.

The was the primary fortress of the Ikkō-ikki, mobs of warrior monks and peasants who opposed samurai rule.

The Molesmes community was divided, and the monks opposed Robert and Albéric.

was a series of fortresses and fortifications controlled by the Ikkō-ikki, a sect of warrior monks in Japan's Sengoku period who opposed samurai rule.

, also known as Hongan-ji Kennyo ( 本願寺 顕如 ), was the 11th head of the Hongan-ji in Kyoto, and Chief Abbot of Ishiyama Hongan-ji, cathedral fortress of the Ikkō-ikki ( Buddhist warrior monks and peasants who opposed samurai rule ), during its siege at the end of the Sengoku Period.

While the issue remains controversial, it is thought that Indianization was the work of Indian traders and merchants as opposed to political leaders, although the travels of Buddhist monks such as Atisha later became important.

* Azai Nagamasa-son of Hisamasa, came into conflict with Oda Nobunaga and opposed him, entering an alliance with the Asakura clan and the monks of Mt.

Examples among the Egyptian monks of this submission to the commands of the superiors, exalted into a virtue by those who regarded the entire crushing of the individual will as a goal, are detailed by Cassian and others, e. g. a monk watering a dry stick, day after day, for months, or endeavoring to remove a huge rock immensely exceeding his powers.

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.

In this caricature, monks and nuns enjoy their new freedom after the decree of 16 February 1790

We absolutely forbid abbots and monks to acquire by prescription after thirty years the possessions of churches and of shops.

Shortly after, Aethelstane emerges – not dead, but having been laid in his coffin alive by avaricious monks desirous of the funeral money.

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.

There were a number of monasteries in and around the town, including a Benedectine monastery after which the Barfussgässchen ( Barefoot Alley ) is named and a monastery of Irish monks near the present day Ranstädter Steinweg ( old Via Regia ).

Intolerance towards Nichiren Buddhism did not cease after Nichiren ’ s death ( 1282 ), and the most famous persecution was the violent attacks on Nichiren temples in the 16th century, Kyoto, Japan: “ Nichiren temples in Kyoto were attacked by the monks from Mt.

Oderisio fortified the monastery, as the people of the town of Cassino forcibly entered the monastery, and after an armed struggle forced the monks to declare Oderisio deposed and to elect another abbot in his place.

He had just returned from the Levant after being forced out by his monks in 1122.

* Chapter 1 defines four kinds of monks: ( 1 ) Cenobites, those " in a monastery, where they serve under a rule and an abbot "; ( 2 ) Anchorites, or hermits, who, after long successful training in a monastery, are now coping single-handedly, with only God for their help ; ( 3 ) Sarabaites, living by twos and threes together or even alone, with no experience, rule and superior, and thus a law unto themselves ; and ( 4 ) Gyrovagues, wandering from one monastery to another, slaves to their own wills and appetites.

The monks were jailed after publicly being flogged and paraded through the street as people threw rubbish at them.

** Members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria kill 7 French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.

By that time, the Gelugpa or Yellow Hat school had, after a period of anarchy in Tibet, become a powerful force resulting in the flight to Bhutan of numerous monks of various minor opposing sects.

* The Taira and Minamoto clans join forces to rule Japan after defeating the warrior monks of the Enryakuji Temple near Kyoto.

The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 12th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest: the abbot often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right.

Abbot Alexander with twelve Cistercian monks from Fountains went to Barnoldswick and after demolishing the existing church attempted to build the abbey on Henry de Lacy's land.

In 2005, the logo was again displayed on bottles after the monks took a more active role in the brewery.

On the other hand, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, many priests, monks and artists took refuge in Crete and reinforced the Byzantine religion and culture on the island.

In some monastic traditions the Great Schema is only given to monks and nuns on their death bed, while in others they may be elevated after as little as 25 years of service.

After a dispute and riot in 1132 at the Benedictine house, St Mary's Abbey, in York, 13 monks were expelled and, after unsuccessfully attempting to return to the early 6th-century Rule of St Benedict, were taken into the protection of Thurstan, Archbishop of York.

After enduring a harsh winter in 1133, the monks applied to join the Cistercian order and in 1135 became the second house of that order in northern England, after Rievaulx.

Opposite the refectory door in the cloister were two lavatories, where the monks washed before and after eating.

Bridget of Sweden ( 1303 – 23 July 1373 ; also Birgitta of Vadstena, Saint Birgitta ( or Birgitta Birgersdotter ), was a mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks after the death of her husband of twenty years.

The name St. Martin is believed to have been given to the church by the monks of the Bec Abbey, after Martin of Tours, a saint in Normandy.