Sentence examples for describes a monastery from inspiring English sources

There are moments of poetry (he describes a monastery at dawn: "the huge boulders outside my room look as if they're buried in snow") and moments of wit and insight (as in his description of Bombay's incomprehensible "Hindlish": a street sign advises, "If married divorce to speed").

His relatives described a confrontation that began at the local Kirti monastery.

He describes their monasteries, adorned with "images of attractively voluptuous women....because in the eyes of the monks, this was completely appropriate decoration".

Kinley Dorji, editor of Kuensel, Bhutan's only newspaper, said in a telephone interview yesterday from Thimphu, the Bhutanese mountain capital, that he saw the ruins yesterday and described the monastery as "totally gone". A caretaker, the only monk in residence at the time, was missing, Mr. Dorji said.

He describes his new home as a "monastery for programmers".

Architectural historians have described the monastery churches, some shaped like gnomes in slouch hats, as Byzantine churches built with Gothic hands.

We chose the neutral documentary Living in a Monastery (Spiegel TV, 94 min 1), which describes the daily routine of nuns in a convent without any positive or negative emotional content.

Their language is best described as a collection of monastery dialects; there is a certain uniformity in the writings of any given monastery but little for the area as a whole.

Its name (Arabic for "northern monastery") refers to a monastery built there in the 7th century ce.

Usually described as a fictional saint, he had the distinction of residing in private homes rather than in a monastery, performing numerous miracles and using the gift of clairvoyance.

All Souls resembles a monastery.