Monastery
noun
A building or group of buildings where monks or nuns live and work.
The monks spend most of the day in prayer and study at the monastery.
Often appears as...
- buddhist monastery
- christian monastery
noun
A building or group of buildings where monks or nuns live and work.
The monks spend most of the day in prayer and study at the monastery.
Often appears as...
- buddhist monastery
- christian monastery
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Pro Tip 1/3Religious Seclusion
A monastery is a secluded place where life is dedicated to religious practice, away from society.
The monastery atop the hill is a sanctuary of peace and devotion.
Pro Tip 2/3Monastic Community
A monastery includes communal areas where residents live, pray, and often work together.
The community garden in the monastery supplied food for the monks.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Sites
Many monasteries are historic and can be significant tourist attractions with cultural importance.
We visited the ancient monastery, which was a highlight of our trip.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Seclusion
A monastery is a secluded place where life is dedicated to religious practice, away from society.
The monastery atop the hill is a sanctuary of peace and devotion.
Pro Tip 2/3Monastic Community
A monastery includes communal areas where residents live, pray, and often work together.
The community garden in the monastery supplied food for the monks.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Sites
Many monasteries are historic and can be significant tourist attractions with cultural importance.
We visited the ancient monastery, which was a highlight of our trip.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Seclusion
A monastery is a secluded place where life is dedicated to religious practice, away from society.
The monastery atop the hill is a sanctuary of peace and devotion.
Pro Tip 2/3Monastic Community
A monastery includes communal areas where residents live, pray, and often work together.
The community garden in the monastery supplied food for the monks.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Sites
Many monasteries are historic and can be significant tourist attractions with cultural importance.
We visited the ancient monastery, which was a highlight of our trip.
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
important monasteries and temples in the region so it's clear that there is a connection here that is we know there's some kind of connection but the character of that connection is really somewhat unclear history only takes us so far they say well of course there was trade up and down this valley but what do we know about the antiquity of this trade how well does it connect anything
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Derek Sarno: The many...
Long story short, I ended up laying my old self to rest. Selling off the food business and living in a Buddhist monastery for three years, where I learned to sit and studied compassion and how my mind worked. What I discovered was a connection to food and heart that I had ignored.
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The evolution of the...
if that is what I had to contend with whenever I wanted to write something down really the least of my worries would be eros and scribes did make plenty because it was tiring work lots of hand cramps it took ages there in freezing-cold monastery is very dimly
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See How Life Has Changed...
aware of this monastery my entire life that it existed and that one day I was gonna go visit it my great-grandparents kept having daughters and they wanted a son so they went to this monastery named after a st. Behnam and they prayed to
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National Geographic...
had asked permission from a rinpoche in a monastery and I spent four months living in that monastery peeling away the cliches peeling away to the essence for me it was also an excuse to start a long life relationship to Buddhism and I
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Where is home? - Pico...
anybody here go to a monastery that's not the point but I do think it's only by stopping movement that you can see where to go and it's only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about
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Where Is Home? PIPE Pico...
And, of course, I'm not suggesting that anybody here go into a monastery. That's not the point. But I do think it's only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it's only by stepping out of your life and the world
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This country isn't just...
monks and monasteries. And yes, we celebrate our national dress, too. This is why I can wear my gho with pride. Here's a fun you're looking at the world's biggest pocket.
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Braving a Thunderstorm...
out there in the gloom and the drizzle are the mountains the forests and the savannas where the maned wolves live and this wonderful building is the monastery
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Destination Ireland PIPE...
the experience is illuminating Ireland has produced a plethora of castles churches and towers its monasteries became important centers of
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
important monasteries and temples in the region so it's clear that there is a connection here that is we know there's some kind of connection but the character of that connection is really somewhat unclear history only takes us so far they say well of course there was trade up and down this valley but what do we know about the antiquity of this trade how well does it connect anything
Video examples
Derek Sarno: The many...
Long story short, I ended up laying my old self to rest. Selling off the food business and living in a Buddhist monastery for three years, where I learned to sit and studied compassion and how my mind worked. What I discovered was a connection to food and heart that I had ignored.
Video examples
The evolution of the...
if that is what I had to contend with whenever I wanted to write something down really the least of my worries would be eros and scribes did make plenty because it was tiring work lots of hand cramps it took ages there in freezing-cold monastery is very dimly
Video examples
See How Life Has Changed...
aware of this monastery my entire life that it existed and that one day I was gonna go visit it my great-grandparents kept having daughters and they wanted a son so they went to this monastery named after a st. Behnam and they prayed to
Video examples
National Geographic...
had asked permission from a rinpoche in a monastery and I spent four months living in that monastery peeling away the cliches peeling away to the essence for me it was also an excuse to start a long life relationship to Buddhism and I
Video examples
Where is home? - Pico...
anybody here go to a monastery that's not the point but I do think it's only by stopping movement that you can see where to go and it's only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about
Video examples
Where Is Home? PIPE Pico...
And, of course, I'm not suggesting that anybody here go into a monastery. That's not the point. But I do think it's only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it's only by stepping out of your life and the world
Video examples
This country isn't just...
monks and monasteries. And yes, we celebrate our national dress, too. This is why I can wear my gho with pride. Here's a fun you're looking at the world's biggest pocket.
Video examples
Braving a Thunderstorm...
out there in the gloom and the drizzle are the mountains the forests and the savannas where the maned wolves live and this wonderful building is the monastery
Video examples
Destination Ireland PIPE...
the experience is illuminating Ireland has produced a plethora of castles churches and towers its monasteries became important centers of
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Rowan Williams
English Theologian
Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.
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Benedict Cumberbatch
English Actor
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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Edmund Hillary
New Zealander Explorer
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
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Ken Follett
Welsh Author
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
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Quentin Crisp
English Writer
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Basil Hume
English Clergyman
On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an excellent thing. In other words, it is the community that matters.
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Swiss Critic
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
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John Keats
English Poet
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Rowan Williams
English Theologian
Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
Quote examples
Alain de Botton
English Writer
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.
Quote examples
Benedict Cumberbatch
English Actor
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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Edmund Hillary
New Zealander Explorer
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
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Ken Follett
Welsh Author
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
Quote examples
Quentin Crisp
English Writer
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quote examples
Basil Hume
English Clergyman
On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an excellent thing. In other words, it is the community that matters.
Quote examples
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Swiss Critic
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
Quote examples
John Keats
English Poet
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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