Sentence examples for in monastery from inspiring English sources

Education Lycée classique in monastery, Luxembourg; Technical University of Stuttgart.

Most of these figures were accommodated in monastery halls built in impermanent materials.

"I treated the whole time in prison as a monk in monastery," he said.

Many texts were found in monastery libraries, and soon considerable enthusiasm for the style of writing and pagan contents of the classical works developed.

The plant was grown in monastery gardens of Continental Europe through the Middle Ages and introduced to Britain about the 16th century.

After the closure of the Tibet border in 1962 following the Indo-China war, the artery between Sikkim and its cultural heart was severed, and it was isolated from discourses in monastery conservation.

Josetsu is also believed to have done the boldly executed group portrait of Buddha, Lao-tzu, and Confucius, "The Three Teachers," located in the Ryōsoku-in monastery, Kyōto.

Some of Motonobu's paintings, originally done on sliding panels, were subsequently mounted on hanging scrolls; these include the important "49 Landscapes with Flowers and Birds" (also in the Reiun-in monastery), which prefigure the monumental decorative compositions of the later Kanō artists, Eitoku (1543 1590) and Sanraku (1559 1635).

He became both a connoisseur and master of calligraphy, possibly studying in his late 30's under Prince Soncho, less for the latter's calligraphic talents than his hereditary position as abbot of the Shoren-in monastery, an important repository of ancient Chinese and Japanese calligraphy.

He executed many paintings on the sliding panels of the Reiun-in monastery in Kyōto, where he decorated three rooms with landscapes painted in the styles of three different Chinese masters: the soft ink-wash style of Mu-ch'i Fa-ch'ang (late 12th early 13th century); the hard, stiff style of Hsia Kuei (1195 1224); and the broken ink style of Yü Chien (c. 1230).

I'd spent the previous ten days in silent meditation in a monastery in Dharmkot.