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The Middle Ages, you see a lot of monks that were wearing garments that were cape-like, with hoods attached, so therefore, "hoodies."
What's he doing over there at Amrapali's house with all his 500 monks," and so on.
And we stitch them together like medieval monks, and we leave the normal stuff on the floor.
The Associated Press is a better chronicler of wars over the surface of the Earth than sixteenth-century monks were.
I didn't consult the monks for guidance.
You can do two-tone singing, which monks can do, which is like... (Two-tone singing) But that's cheating.
And jumping monks of Tibet.
Flying monks.
I met a monkey named Boonlua, and when Boonlua was a baby, he was attacked by a pack of dogs, and they ripped off both of his legs and one arm, and Boonlua dragged himself to a monastery, where the monks took him in.
For these monks, blindly seeking answers was a vice to overcome, and learning to accept the mysteries of existence was the true path to enlightenment.
But by framing those lessons as illogical anecdotes, they became tests to help practicing monks learn to live with ambiguity and paradox.
By puzzling through these confusing “cases," meditating monks could both internalize and practice Buddhist teachings.
But like the monks before us, we can puzzle over them together, and investigate just how resistant they are to simple explanations.
Two monks, Tanzan and Ekido, are traveling together down a muddy road.
According to monastic law, monks were not supposed to go near women, let alone touch a beautiful stranger.
One such example finds three monks debating a temple flag rippling in the wind.
The third monk identifies their conflict as a perceptual one – both arguing monks fail to see the larger picture.
Neither the wisdom from practicing monks before us, nor the supposedly wise characters in these stories can resolve them for you.
My country is not one big monastery populated with happy monks.
We continue to celebrate our art and architecture, food and festivals, monks and monasteries.
And one of the volunteers took this prototype to educate young monks and took it to this monastery in Ladakh.
And of course, this is what the Tibetan monks told us.
In the hundreds of Benedictine monasteries scattered across Europe, medieval monks experimented endlessly with different types of milk, cheesemaking practices, and aging processes that led to many of today’s popular cheeses.
And I was watching this crowd of monks and nuns, many of which I had just interviewed, and heard their stories, and I watched their faces, and they gave us a little FM radio, and we could listen to the translation of his teachings.
Painted with squirrel-hair brushes on vellum or parchment by monks, nuns, and urban craftspeople, these bizarre images populate the margins of the most prized books from the Middle Ages.
Since she was in fact a benevolent white snake spirit in human form, their marriage had already weathered attacks by meddling monks.
It started with a disagreement over the behavior of a militia of monks, and ended with an accusation of witchcraft leveled against one of the most powerful figures in the city.
The local archbishop Cyril had steadily gained political power, commanding zealous militias of Christian monks to destroy pagan temples and harass the Jewish population.
But when a group of Cyril’s monks incited a riot, badly injuring Orestes in the process, he had their leader tortured to death.
In March 415, as Hypatia was traveling through the city, the bishop’s militia of monks dragged her from her carriage and brutally murdered and dismembered her.
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