Twitter Google Share on Facebook monk Thesaurus Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to monk:Thelonious Monk monk (mŭngk) n. A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order:a Carthusian monk; a Buddhist monk. ...
Basically they were sending me to the monastery saying “Can you help free this boy from all the disturbing emotions, intense disturbing emotions he is going through?”. It’s sort of really sending to the mental hospital. The monastery, of course, had a very rigid schedule, and really ver...
Metropolitan Branch Trail, Washington, DC We looked for more bike trails in DC, besides the one by the Potomac and discovered the Metropolitan Branch Trail. It’s a 8 mile trail that starts near the Union Station where I cannot say that is exactly easy to find it. If you stay in a ho...
He is not a “monk” belonging to a monastery. He could have easily joined a monastery (either Buddhist or Taoist), which then as now would have been the usual thing to do. In fact, there was then (and still there today) a monastery a few miles from his mountain. Sometimes he would...
Every year in late May or early June, I start growing my beard out so I can play St. Nicholas on December 6 and Santa the rest of the month. This year I did somewhat more for St. Nicholas Day than usual, much to the delight of the students at our monastery's high school. ...
I was more comfortable when you were a dude bringing me flowers. Rosario-Matilda threatens suicide if Ambrosio refuses to let her stay in the monastery, because all she wants to do is be near him, and it’ll be like they’re just friends and stuff. She’s all set to kill herself wit...
and Hisham sees a connection between the Monkey of South East Asia and the monkey ofEast Asia. While living in the monastery, I worked a lot with my team mates, teaching them to use their devastating elbows to fight from and on the ground, and to use the sharp points of the elbow to...
During the three months that Antonio lived in the monastery he learned Thai language and Muay Thai (Thai kick boxing). Most importantly, he learned about Kruh Bah’s work along the border, helping tribal people, subjected to genocide by the Burmese government. Among the friends he made in th...
The front veranda of Sera Me College were occupied by prostrating pilgrims. We had seen this checker pattern several times at different Tibetan monasteries. Next we walked over to the largest college at Sera Monastery: the Sera Je College. We had a peaceful moment at the upper level of Sera...
” He pulled something out of his monk's robs. “Look at this: a gold statue of the Buddha. It's almost one thousand and five hundred years old. Foreign collectors would pay one million dollars for a piece like this. It was in a Buddhist monastery in a place called Mastong. Then ...