Sentence examples for Two monastery from inspiring English sources

The Communists tore down all but two monastery buildings to build the radio parts factory, but kept up the church's exterior as a tourist site.

Weekly Eleven also said two monasteries in Kyaukmyaung collapsed, killing two people.

Outside Mercia he induced the East and the South Saxons to accept Christianity and is said to have founded one or two monasteries.

He also served as abbot of two monasteries (1971 81) and as secretary and then chief secretary of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece (1978 81).

After two monasteries, a couple of churches and a peek over Pereslavl's earthen ramparts, we decided to stop for a quick bite.

Of the monks in the two monasteries in Sengeshong, about 60 can paint with some skill, said Lobsang, a compact, cheerful, Red Bull-drinking man who entered the monastery at age 7 and began studying thangka painting seven years later.

Erdene Zuu, however, was saved from complete physical ruin because Mongolian government officials — apparently pressured by Stalin himself — decided to retain one or two monasteries to show foreign visitors.

Gangtok's cityscape is marked by the former royal palace and chapel, two monasteries, the Lall Market, the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology (1958; a centre for research in Mahayana Buddhism, including a library and a museum), and the Cottage Industries Institute (1957).

The two monasteries that Mr. Locke visited were in Songpan, an area about 100 miles east of the town of Aba, which is called Ngaba by Tibetans and has been the epicenter of the self-immolations.

It was mostly reported as mob attacks on the remaining Serb and Roma minorities, and it certainly was: nineteen people were killed and nine hundred injured, and the homes of more than seven hundred Serbs and other minorities were destroyed, along with thirty Orthodox churches and two monasteries; rampaging schoolchildren burned down a medieval convent and took a nun hostage.

Hildegard was also a writer, philosopher, mystic, visionary and a Benedictine abbess who founded two monasteries.