Sentence examples for lay monastic from inspiring English sources

He became a Dominican oblate, or lay monastic, in 1601.

In 1497 Luther was sent to nearby Magdeburg to attend a school operated by the Brethren of the Common Life, a lay monastic order whose emphasis on personal piety apparently exerted a lasting influence on him.

Cornaro had become an oblate (lay monastic) in the Benedictine order in 1665, and after receiving her degree she divided her time between further studies and ministering to the poor.

Some of the most detailed evidence for the employment of both clerical and lay monastic confinement in the sixth century comes from the letters of Gregory the Great (590-604).

So-called "Western Buddhism" evolved among European, North American, and Australian lay and monastic followers.

Topics may include interactions of Buddhism with local religious culture; the emergence of Shinto; lay and monastic Buddhism; new religious movements; millenarianism; death ritual; and religion-state relations.

"The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicising walking and sitting mediation.

Composed by lay and monastic jurists in prose and verse, in Pali, Burmese, and other regional vernaculars, dhammasattha were intended for use by judges to guide the adjudication of legal disputes.

He gathered lay and monastic disciples around him and preached throughout the Indian subcontinent for almost fifty years, and he achieved final "extinction" (the root meaning of the Sanskrit word nirvāṇa) from the woes of existence.

All his observances group incantation of canonical liturgy, participation in assemblies with other monastic orders (kumbhamela) at various places and at astrologically determined times, alms begging, teaching religious topics to the laity, and conducting scriptural discourse with lay and monastic scholars (shastrartha)—are ancillary to his main purpose, which is meditation.

The project explores chanting practices surrounding Chinese Buddhist texts during the Six Dynasties and Tang periods, and how these sonic activities and aural experiences affected not only people's religious lives in a ritual context, but also the larger role of chant in the lives of medieval Chinese Buddhists, both lay and monastic.