The phrase "a small monastery in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the location or size of a monastery, often in a narrative or descriptive context.
Example: "During our travels, we stumbled upon a small monastery in the mountains, offering a peaceful retreat from the bustling city."
Alternatives: "a tiny monastery located in" or "a modest monastery situated in".
Within a year, a businessman from his hometown recruited him to help build a small monastery in the hills nearby.
INSIDE a small monastery in China's Qinghai province, a red-robed monk looks around to see if he is being watched, then begins sobbing.
Amazingly, he did: His Holiness Ajahn Chah, the master of a small monastery in northern Thailand, who was dedicated to preserving, in pure form, the mindfulness practices the Buddha himself pioneered.
Alexandra, for solace and enlightenment, turned to the Gomchen of Lachen, the Hermetic master of a small monastery in a mountain village near the Tibetan border.
Towards the end of his episcopate in York, he established a small monastery in Gloucester, which had to be re-established in 1058 after being burned.
An unnamed, unmarried daughter is recorded, as well as several other unnamed younger children, in 803; along with Domnika, they were left a part of Bardanes's fortune, part of which was donated to the poor, and the rest used to found a small monastery in Constantinople, where they retired.
What the lodge lacked in creature comforts it made up for in the view: a small monastery, home to a lone monk, sat across from the lodge, and behind that rose the snow mountains.
A small monastery, the Kaisarianí, stands on the site of a spring renowned in the ancient world for its curative properties.
His small monastery in Songpan county has so far been spared the worst of an intense security clampdown in Tibetan areas of Sichuan, following a series of self-immolations by Tibetan protesters, most of them monks and nuns.
Founded in 1515, there were already a small Franciscan monastery in Cumaná and a Dominican one at Chiribichi, but the monks there were being harassed by Spaniards operating slave raids from the nearby Island of Cubagua.
Rumors traveled too, especially that the major monasteries – Pemayangtse, Dubdi, Tashiding and Ringhim – were barely standing and that some of the smaller monasteries in Khechiperi and Hongdi had been obliterated.
