Sentence examples for great monastery from inspiring English sources

He withdrew to the great monastery of Cluny in Burgundy.

The entire complex is referred to on seals discovered there as Mahavihara ("Great Monastery").

In Byzantium the great monastery of Studion became the model of numerous cenobitic communities.

Their maternal uncle had been treasurer of Kumbum, the great monastery Mr. Norbu would lead.

It was originally associated with the nearby Mahāvihāra ("Great Monastery"), which was the traditional centre of religious and civil power built by Devānanpiya-Tissa (307 267 bc).

He wrote an excellent book, Durham Priory, 1400-1450 (1973), based on his doctoral thesis, which explored the religious and social importance of that great monastery.

What started as a couple of salvaged traditional wooden houses 18 months ago, on a bluff above the spectacularly beautiful Mokra Gora valley in western Serbia, has mushroomed into a modern take on the great monastery-universities of the middle ages.

The great monasteries of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa were disbanded.

Later in the 12th century the Cistercians founded great monasteries at Esrum and Sorø in Zealand (Sjælland) and at Løgum in southern Jutland.

This time we were heading east, up the Indus towards Tibet, past the great monasteries of Thikse and Hemis, until we reached a tributary, the Shang.

C. J. Sansom, a British lawyer with a Ph.D. in history, proved himself the most trustworthy of authors with "Dissolution," a mystery set during the tumultuous period when Henry VIII was dismantling England's great monasteries and systematically pillaging their earthly treasures.