* Most Venerable Hsin Pei ( 2005-2013 )

His term as abbot ended in 2005 when Venerable Hsin Pei was elected to succeed him.

After his preceptor, Venerable Master Hsing Yun who is a forty eighth generation lineage holder of the Linji Chan School, Hsin Pei and his predecessor Hsin Ting are the forty ninth generation lineage holders.

Hui Han began to use the Dharma name Most Venerable Hsin Pei.

The Venerable Bede ( IV. 1 ) took notice of an anecdote concerning Ebroin in 668.

According to an Old Believer legend, the Old Believer settlement in the area was spurred by the existence of the ancient Olenevsky Skete ( today, the village of Bolshoye Olenevo, some southeast from Semyonov ), which had supposedly been founded in the 15th century by some of Venerable Macarius's monks to commemorate their leader's Miracle of the Moose that took place at that site, and later joined the Raskol.

The Paris authorities reluctantly agreed and Gayre, took as a model to emulate the Most Venerable Order of St. John.

Venerable Dhammananda's journey to Malaya took three days.

He took the opportunity to discuss with Venerable Gunaratana some of the problems and issues involved in propagation work in Malaya.

At the age of 15, he took refuge in the Triple Gem under the Venerable Chang Zhi.

According to an Old Believer legend, the oldest of the sketes, the Olenevsky Skete (, i. e. " The Skete of the Deer "), had supposedly been founded in the 15th century by some of Venerable Macarius's monks to commemorate their leader's Miracle of the Moose that took place at that site, and later joined the Raskol.

In 2006 he sponsored and attended actively the solemn and sumptuous celebration of the 2550th birthday of the Buddha Shakyamuni, which took place in the office of the UNESCO in Paris, organized by the Venerable Tampalawela Dhammaratana, ex-president of the Buddhist Union of France, it was an event of international scale, that left a big influence in the Buddhist and not Buddhist world, by the distribution of its message of world peace and peace of mind in the heart of each.

The eighth century monk and chronicler the Venerable Bede wrote a history of the English church called Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ; the history only covers events up to 731, but as one of the major sources for Anglo-Saxon history it provides important background information for Offa's reign.

* Eminent and Venerable Council of Sages-The council comprises the first three Fraggles to show up for a hearing.

* " Once when he sat meditation ... they cut his flesh ... tore his hair ... picked him up and ... dropped him ... the Venerable One accepted the pain.

Duncan's personal influence and some happy displays of his vast personal strength held the crew of the Venerable to their duty ; but with one other exception, that of the Adamant, the ships refused to quit their anchorage at Yarmouth, leaving the Venerable and Adamant alone to keep up the pretence of the blockade.

At first he was anxious to bring up his fleet in a compact body, for at best his numbers were not more than equal to those of the Dutch ; but seeing the absolute necessity of immediate action, without waiting for the ships astern to come up, without waiting to form line of battle, and with the fleet in very irregular order of sailing, in two groups, led respectively by himself in the Venerable and Vice-admiral Richard Onslow in the Monarch, he made the signal to pass through the enemy's line and engage to leeward.

Commanding the 80-gun Formidable, Troude chose to let his quickest opponent, the 74-gun HMS Venerable, catch him up ; Venerable ended up so badly battered that the rest of the British had to abandon the chase to save her, allowing the Formidable to escape.

When men from his flagship HMS Venerable clambered up into the rigging and roared three cheers in a prearranged signal for the revolt to begin on 1 May, Duncan initially threatened to run the ringleader through with his sword.

* The second Venerable, launched in 1808, was also a 74-gun third rate, on harbour service from 1825, and broken up in 1838.

In 1977, Venerable Khemadhammo returned to the U. K. and, after staying in London and Birmingham, set up a small monastery on the Isle of Wight.

Under Venerable Kwang Sheng's leadership, the Dharma Propagation Division was set up for Singaporeans to learn Buddhism and practice the Dharma in relevant ways.

Venerable Dhammananda arrived in Malaya in 1952, first stopping in Penang before taking up residence at the Brickfields Temple, Kuala Lumpur.

Jeong Yak-yong was free to move about the Gangjin area and in the spring of 1805 he walked up the hill as far as Baeknyeon-sa Temple, where he met the Venerable Hyejang, the newly-arrived monk in charge of the temple, who was about ten years younger than himself.

Some of the boarding school children are Westerners from the local community who want their children to grow up in a community-oriented place, while some of the children come from Taiwan and China, even from European countries, such as France, Belgium, and Holland, where parents think highly of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua.

She didn't give up her meditation practice however, and soon after embarked on her second retreat in a different frame of mind, at the Thathana Yeiktha center, where the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw ( the most renowned monk, scholar, and meditation master in Burma at the time ) was teacher-in-residence.

Twelve nuns and employees of the temple, including then-abbess Venerable Yi Kung who would later resign from the abbotship because of the scandal, refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997.

* 23px Knight of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem ( 1991 )

The Orders of Saint John: The History, Structure, Membership and Modern Role of the Five Hospitaller Orders of Saint John of Jerusalem ; New York: The American Society of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John in Jerusalem, 1991.

He was Chancellor ( 1988 – 1991 ) and Lord Prior ( 1991 – 2002 ) of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem and was made Bailiff Grand Cross of this order ( GCStJ ) in 1987.

On being informed that he was a prisoner of war, he replied " This is my destiny not foreseen " and, after checking on a mortally wounded officer who lay on the quarterdeck, he followed the boarding party back to their boat for the trip to Venerable.

In the 74-gun third-rate Venerable Hood was present at the Battle of Algeciras on 8 July 1801 and the action in the Straits of Gibraltar that followed.

# Let Us Praise or Venerable Books ( 尊經 ; Zūn jīng ), a list of sacred books followed by a short note ; contained in the above manuscript in Paris, Bib.

From this point the one said to be " heroic in virtue " is referred to by the title " Venerable ".

A Venerable has as of yet no feast day, no churches may be built in his or her honor, and the church has made no statement on the person's probable or certain presence in heaven, but prayer cards and other materials may be printed to encourage the faithful to pray for a miracle wrought by his or her intercession as a sign of God's will that the person be canonized.

* If the Venerable was not a martyr – all non-martyrs are " confessors " as they " confessed " or bore witness to their faith by how they lived their lives – it must be proven that a miracle has taken place by his or her intercession: that is, that God has shown a sign that the person is enjoying the Beatific Vision by God performing a miracle in response to the Blessed's prayers.

At this point Athena led a procession accompanying them to their new abode, with the escort now addressing them as " Semnai " ( Venerable Ones ), as they will now be honored by the citizens of Athens and ensure the city's prosperity.

It was founded by the Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, and named in honor of Christopher Columbus.

Northumberland's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was a monk and later Abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede.

Upon his accession he wrote to Peter the Venerable and the monks of Cluny, asking them to pray for him, while he was congratulated by Arnulf of Lisieux.

Venerable Ajahn Vayama together with Venerables Nirodha, Seri and Hasapanna were ordained as bhikkhunis by a dual sangha act of bhikkhus and bhikkhunis in full accordance with the pali vinaya.

The Venerable Bede translates John, by J. D. Penrose, c. 1902.

An example is provided by Wong Kiew Kit, who writes: " It was during this time that the Venerable Bodhidharma came from India to China to spread Buddhism.

* Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda.

* Fulk the Venerable, Archbishop of Rheims ( assassinated by Count Baldwin II of Flanders )

An example is the Rosary of the Holy Wounds first introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by the Venerable Sister Mary Martha Chambon, a Roman Catholic nun of the Monastery of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France.

The Erinyes are propitiated by a new ritual, in which they are worshipped as " Semnai Theai ", " Venerable Ones ", and Orestes dedicates an altar to Athena Areia.

This devotion ( started by Sister Marie and then promoted by the Venerable Leo Dupont ) was approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

The second source is the Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum by the Venerable Bede, written in 731.

Virtually all Japanese Buddhist traditions, especially Jodo Shinshu, which have carried over to the West style priests as The Reverend rather than Venerable, the religious style often used by Chinese and Tibetan Buddhists.

He was declared Venerable in 1995 by Pope John Paul II.

They were founded in 1538 in Naples by the Venerable Maria Laurentia Longo, who was Abbess of the Poor Clare monastery of that city.

The Anno Domini era became dominant in Western Europe only after it was used by the Venerable Bede to date the events in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731.

Samuel Mazzuchelli, a missionary and expert in Indian languages, ministered to whites and Indians in Wisconsin and Iowa for 34 years and, after his death, was declared Venerable by the Catholic Church.