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...tain of his worship rights were curtailed. Follow the adventures of Sri Sugunendra Tirtha Swami and in the bargain explore the history of the amazing monasteries and temples in Udupi. In Karnataka one of the foremost swamis of India opens a magnificent temple for Lord Siva. The Kalabhairava Temple is the work of Sri Balagangadharanathaswami, who happens to also be Hindu...

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...Essentially the sequel to The Life of St. Teresa, Teresa recounts the foundations of the Discalced Carmelite monasteries in Spain, both for men and women. This book tells of all the triumphs and troubles, and about the many people who helped her.(Introduction by Ann Boulais)...

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...is? Will you not overturn the practice and teaching of all the churches and monasteries, by virtue of which they have flourished all these centuries?... ...and obedience. 135 Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) founded 163 Cistercian monasteries in different parts of Europe, which by his death had increas...

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...re told to eat less, breathe less, move less, restrict ourselves, and live in monasteries. The wisdom of Kabbalah, however, speaks about being a grea...

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...ions of all the places and constructions in Romania that are in strong connection with the personality of Prince Vlad Ţepeş. There is about churches, monasteries, fortresses, castles, towns that he built, consolidated or had things in common during his life. I put all of them together as I never found elsewhere, describing both according to the particularly information and...

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...t a student at Trinity College Dublin and subsequently travelled in Europe sustaining himself by playing the flute and disputing doctrinal matters in monasteries and universities. Later he worked as an apothecary's assistant, a doctor and a school usher (experiences shared in this story by Dr Primrose's son). (Summary by Martin Clifton)...

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...re of this first fragile evidence, and limits speculation. Later, libraries of religious books grew in Europe, where monks copied individual books in monasteries. The block printing technique began with illustrations carved in wood blocks, while the text needed to be written by hand. Eventually, entire pages were printed as combinations of illustrations with text. The Bibl...

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...nth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of the ―Dark Ages‖ prevented the complete colla... ...ir proper dates—and biblical studies. Along with other works from English monasteries, they contributed greatly to a rebirth of scholarship on the c... ...ong the Europe‘s west coast. These invading Norsemen plundered British monasteries and prompted monks to pray: From the fury of the Norsemen d...

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...eenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of the ―Dark Ages‖ prevented the complete colla... ...ir proper dates—and biblical studies. Along with other works from English monasteries, they contributed greatly to a rebirth of scholarship on the c... ...along the Europe‘s west coast. These invading Norsemen plundered British monasteries and prompted monks to pray: From the fury of the Norsemen de...

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... held in villages on Wisaka Buddha, but monks were given uncooked rice and monasteries were generally stocked up with dry foodstuffs, because during t... ...subsidy forAids patients. Many temples have taken orphaned boys into their monasteries and given them an opportunity of education. All this public sym... .... Religion was passed down from older generations of monks, and many local monasteries created their own religious traditions around them. (67 Nowaday... ...rgans. In spite of centrally led administration, the independence of local monasteries is respected, as in the villages monks are still obliged to acc... ...ne, eliminate folk beliefs and also find ways of maintaining discipline in monasteries.AnewAct on religion has also been under way.(68 Village monaste... ...meone has experienced a deep disappointment or loss with no other way out. Monasteries are open to all who want to withdraw and find peace, but in com... ...ng ordained as monk was a rite of passage reinforcing adulthood of men. In monasteries, young men received ethical education and civilization of the h... ... give an assurance to do their best in serving the King and their country. Monasteries also still take in temple boys who are ordained neen at the age... ...ers want to invite high-ranking and famous monks from the province's large monasteries to their funerals. In the past, ordination of a young man as a ...

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...autama had in fact set up an organized movement which included a system of monasteries and systematic meditation before his death is unknown. It is cl... ...past and in the present tends to escape due attention. The introduction of monasteries for men was fairly easy, but the finding of a role for women pr... ...uddhism among the peasants in contrast with the rarefied atmosphere of the monasteries. But I have not set out to present an introductory textbook of ...

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...c equality that Marx desired? But such equality has only been found in the monasteries and convents of the Christians and Buddhists. --―In t...

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...was molested, but instead, the Buccaneers rushed to the convents, churches and monasteries, from which they dragged out the monks, priests, and nuns w... ...in ashes, the fire consuming the cathedral, four or five other churches, eight monasteries and convents, a great number of warehouses and stores, and ... ...which the stealing was to be done. All priests in charge of churches, heads of monasteries, and all nunneries were admonished that although their hous... ... villages, divided into twelve parishes, having a bishop, several convents and monasteries, and a lineal succession of sixteen bishops, when, as the s... ...e Scandinavian settlements there were both extensive and civilized. There were monasteries where the monks heated their rooms with hot-water pipes le...

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... sleeping on park benches, in hostels, living in guest houses of Buddhist Monasteries, having no money but no responsibilities in exchange for the c...

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...d laymen alike and liberated books from the scriptoria and "libraries" of monasteries. The printing press technology shattered the content monopoly. ... ... by private entrepreneurs (traders) of the day. Established "publishers" (monasteries), with a few exceptions (e.g., in Augsburg, Germany and in Sub...

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...ieties have ever attempted this. A few small religious groups, such as in monasteries and convents, have done it,. —―It‘s strange that only a ...

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...roiri the 5th to the 10th cen- turies, medicineand anatomy were studied in monasteries, interest in the subject being revived after the lOfh century A...

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...person. But even after two thousand years: people still enter nunneries and monasteries to take voluntary vows of poverty and chastity… and practi...

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...ra- tuitous love. Such, too, ought to have been the works of all colleges, monasteries, and priests; every one doing the works of his own profession a... ...mong those innumerable commands and pre- cepts of the Pope, of bishops, of monasteries, of churches, of princes, and of magistrates, which some foolis...