Sentence examples for in a monastic from inspiring English sources

You might think waiters clad in a monastic shirt or jacket will bring you sanctified food.

A Roman Catholic priest who began his vocation in a monastic order, Father Palladino was also a world-renowned master of calligraphy.

To a large degree, Western Buddhism de-monasticized Asian practice, so that meditation was more commonly conducted on retreat and at home rather than in a monastic community.

At an early age he was enrolled in a monastic school, possibly at the Franciscan monastery in Bolsward, to prepare for the priesthood.

Spain's infamous "false chronicles" were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de la Higuera.

Rather, it is a series of glances at the lives of those who have found peace, such as Leonard Cohen, who, after a life of indulgence, found the ultimate seduction in a monastic life.

Mr. Holl is not interested in creating a monastic sanctuary; he wants to build a monument to civic engagement.

The lauras (communities of anchorites) of early Christianity in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece, and Cyrenaica perpetuated today in the Mount Athos (a monastic complex founded in Greece in the 10th century) tradition as well as the small-scale ashrams (religious retreats) of monastic Hinduism since at least 300 bce are best called quasi-eremitic.

At the same time, there were bishops who organized a kind of boarding school where the aspiring clergyman, living in a community, participated in duties of a monastic character and learned his clerical trade.

The tale of Pope Joan is told in Incominciano Le uite de Pontefici et imperadori Romani, or Lives of the Popes and Roman Emperors, which was published in 1478 by a monastic press at the Ripoli convent in Florence.

"For the first time in Buddhist history, a monastic took the throne of a nation," Thurman writes in "Essential Tibetan Buddhism". "The military was gradually phased out, with three centuries of relative peace, a unique, mass monastic, unilaterally disarmed society". While some scholars, including Donald Lopez, see a danger in overidealizing Tibetan history, Thurman remains unabashed.