When he heard that there was a Buddhist teacher on the rocky island of Putuo he quickly journeyed there to learn.

When the Tzu-Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese Buddhist organisation, noticed the similarity between this form of Guanyin and the Virgin Mary, the organisation commissioned a portrait of Guanyin and a baby that resembles the typical Roman Catholic Madonna and Child painting.

When the Buddhist texts were translated into Chinese, the concubines of others were added to the list of inappropriate partners.

When I ’ ve been to Japan I ’ ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated and I found that rewarding.

When the retired empress came to favor a Buddhist faith healer named Dōkyō, Nakamaro rose up in arms in 764 but was quickly crushed.

When he was 7, Sin was assigned to a monk named Thongdee to begin his education in a Buddhist monastery called Wat Kosawat ( Thai: ว ั ดโกษาวาส ) ( later Wat Choeng Thar ( Thai: ว ั ดเช ิ งท ่ า )).

When Sin and his friend Thong-Duang were Buddhist novices, they reportedly met a Chinese fortune-teller who told them that both had lucky lines in their hands and would both become kings.

When the famous monk Kumārajīva was captured as booty during the Chinese conquest of the Buddhist kingdom of Kucha, he was imprisoned for many years.

When resentments have already arisen, the Buddhist view is to calmly proceed to release them by going back to their roots.

When asked about religion, de Acosta once said that although she had grown up Catholic, she would be, if she had to be anything, a Buddhist.

When the knowledge of Buddhism grew larger, various schools attempted to get a grip on the Buddhist tradition by developing classifications of teachings, such as the Five Periods and Eight Teachings of the Tiantai-school.

When the construction of Tōdai-ji was completed, Rōben entered that temple to formally initiate Kegon as a field of study in Japanese Buddhism, and Kegon-shū would become known as one of the Nanto Rikushū ( 南都六宗 ), or The Six Buddhist Sects of Nanto ( Nara ).

When she heard that Diệm was to sign a statement offering compensation to the families of Buddhist protesters shot dead by the police of his brother Ngô Đình Cẩn, she was reported to have thrown a bowl of soup at him.

When his mother, who was a faithful Buddhist herself, was desperately searching for her husband, he went to Nanjing.

When a prominent, politically active Buddhist monk, Hem Chieu, was arrested and unceremoniously defrocked by the French authorities in July 1942, the editors of Nagaravatta led a demonstration demanding his release.

When Emperor Shōmu ordered two official temples for each province ( one for male Buddhist priests and one for nuns ), two temples were founded in Aki Province.

When applying Buddhist philosophy to the question of homosexuality, western Buddhists often emphasize the importance the Buddha placed on tolerance, compassion, and seeking answers within one's self.

When referring to the Enlightenment of the Buddha ( samma-sambodhi ) and thus to the goal of the Buddhist path the word enlightenment is normally translating the Pali and Sanskrit word bodhi.

When the Sassanids were defeated by the Muslim Arabs in AD, Gandhara along with Kabul was ruled by Buddhist Turks.

When Alexander invaded the Bactrian and Gandharan regions, these areas may already have been under Buddhist or Jain influence.

When he visited Buddhist monks in Nagasaki in February 1691, he was the first western scholar to describe the tree Ginkgo biloba.

When she was one year old, the family relocated to a neighborhood in Houston, Texas and were eventually admitted to a gated community run by a strict Buddhist temple.

When the class sizes grew, she shifted the classes to the Sokoji Zen Buddhist temple in the Japantown, San Francisco.

When General Ne Win took over in 1962, one of his first acts was to repeal the Buddhist acts that had passed under U Nu's administration, including the ban on cow slaughtering and declaration of Buddhism as the state religion, as they had alienated largely Christian ethnic minorities such as the Kachins and the Karens, and perhaps was symbolic of a personality clash between Nu and Ne Win.

When the king undertook a period of service as a Buddhist monk in 1956 ( as is customary for all Thai Buddhist males ), Queen Sirikit became regent.

When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.

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.

When at last successful, he was excommunicated by Pope Callixtus II for having expelled the monks of Saint-Gilles, who had aided his enemies.

When monks and nuns who follow the Theravadan way feed themselves by alms, they must eat leftover foods which are given to them, including meat.

When news of his death at the Council of Constance in 1415 arrived, disturbances broke out, directed primarily against the clergy, and especially against the monks.

When he was about seventy-five years of age, the monks of Sinai persuaded him to become their Igumen.

When he was nine years old Muralitharan was sent to St. Anthony's College, Kandy, a private school run by Benedictine monks.

When he caught an epidemic disease ( probably plague ), he called the monks, strengthened their faith, and appointed his successor.

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.

When the appropriate time will come ( often many years ), the monks will discover the hidden text ; when the world is ready for it.

When monks began going into the deserts of Egypt, it was their custom to pray the entire 150 Psalms every day.

When monks came to him to settle the dispute over Sandwhich, he " lay and grew black as they spoke ".

When the populace came to the defense of the monks, the resulting clashes saw 30 civilians killed and 200 wounded.

When an Orthodox nun dies, the sisterhood of her convent performs the same ministrations for her as are done for monks.

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.

When the monks first arrived in South Yorkshire from Newminster Abbey in Northumberland, they chose the most suitable side of the stream that runs through the valley, on which to build their new Cistercian monastery.

When Archbishop Edsige of Canterbury died in 1051 the monks of the cathedral chapter elected Æthelric, a relative of Earl Godwin's, as archbishop.

When King John discovered that Reginald had been elected without any royal input he forced the monks to elect de Gray as archbishop.

When he went north to suppress the Phra Fang faction, he could see that monks in the north were lax and undisciplined.

When the monks opened this chest they found two books: the “ Marrow Cleansing Classic ,” and the “ Muscle Tendon Change Classic ”, or " Yi Jin Jing " within.

When the Pope, however, wished the monks from Constantinople to undertake that the names of Acacius and Mongus should be rejected from the diptychs, they replied that they had no instructions on that point.

When Chaereas entered Edessa on April 12, 449, to commence the trial, he was met by a mob of abbots and monks and their partisans, clamoring for the immediate expulsion and condemnation of Ibas and his followers.

When his monks copied these texts, Cassiodorus encouraged them to amend texts for both grammar and style.

" When he realized he was being used as a tool by Theophilus against Saint John Chrysostom, who had given refuge to the monks persecuted by Theophilus and who were appealing to the emperor, Epiphanius started back to Salamis, only to die on the way home in 403.