"chief monk" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a monk who is the head of a monastery or temple. For example, "The chief monk of the local monastery led the annual blessing ceremony."
The Wei did this by creating a clerical bureaucracy along the same lines as a civil bureaucracy, appointing a chief monk who supervised the other monks.
At Dambulla, a market town a few miles from Kandalama, we climbed among Sri Lankans of all ages up 500 feet of alternating rock face and old stone steps (past a mammoth, grotesquely gilded new Buddha recently commissioned as a money-raiser by an entrepreneurial chief monk) to a row of five extraordinary caves.
The chief monk at Kirti's sister monastery in Dharamsala in India, where many exiled Tibetans live, has appealed for calm on all sides.
The rate of growth of Buddhist temples and Buddhists doubled after the war, but without an umbrella organisation, each temple, headed by a chief monk or management committee, had its own way of conducting its affairs and relied on itself for financial support.
"The government has many spies among the monks," said one of the chief monks of the Old Ma Soe monastery in Mandalay.
But on September 16th, he belatedly entered the race and swiftly apologised for doing so.He joins four others in a bid to win an election on October 10th to lead 24 chief monks and 10m faithful, and manage 2,500 temples, an annual budget of 33 billion won ($30m) and millions more in property including lucrative cultural monuments and tracts of land leased to the government as national parks.
A Lincoln Center Out of Doors concert hailed the African diaspora kinship of two venerable parade traditions: Mardi Gras Indians from New Orleans, represented by Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and the Golden Eagles; and the maracatu de nação (nation maracatu) of Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil, with Maracatu Nação Estrela Brilhante ("Maracatu Nation Bright Star"), from Recife.
We "lay trainees" -- trainees who are not monks -- gathered in the dining room before the appointed time and stood there in silence, waiting for the Chief Novice monk to delegate our tasks.
Bo Tang Chey, chief Buddhist monk at Han Chey pagoda and deputy head of Kampong Siem district in Kampong Cham Province, said it took him more than a year to make people understand the danger posed by HIV/AIDS.
'We have to be patient' Chief Buddhist monk at Han Chey pagoda, Bo Tang Chey, said it took him more than a year to make people understand the danger posed by HIV/AIDS – and he expects a similar reaction toward avian influenza.
He believed he had inherited his role as a kind of lexical commander in chief from medieval monks, whose literacy in a mostly illiterate world demonstrated the extraordinary power of words to shape reality.
