Sentence examples for assembly of monks from inspiring English sources

The entire text of the Pali Theravada canon was reviewed and recited by the assembly of monks from Burma, India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Pakistan.

About 1429 another wealthy and influential Florentine family, the Pazzi, commissioned Brunelleschi to design a chapel adjacent to the monastic Church of Santa Croce that was intended to be a chapter house (a place of assembly for monks to conduct business).

It consisted of an assembly hall and monks' quarters and was famous for the divine image of Avalokiteśvara who blessed the dead who were buried in the cemetery here.

In most instances, the candidate appears before an assembly of 10 (in some cases fewer) ordained monks and asks for admission to the order as a novice.

The number of monks grew.

I know dozens of monks.

The thousands of monks of the Mundgod monasteries have been asked to follow the discussions — whose topics range from Quantum physics to neuroscience — in the Drepung Loseling Monastery's assembly hall here.

Soldiers raided monasteries and detained hundreds of monks.

Usherettes in sort of monks' robes hand out programs.

Complaints found in the margins of monks' manuscripts.

The first deaths, including of monks, were reported.