Sentence examples for lay practitioners from inspiring English sources

Founded in 1966 by a Japanese Buddhist priest, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the monastery is home to about 50 monks and lay practitioners.

Over Plum Village's three-month winteretreataThayhay repeatedly instructs the hundreds of monks, nuns and lay practitioners about switching off the non-stop noise in their heads and focusing on the core of mindfulness; the joy of breathing, of walking, of contemplation in the present moment.

Tibetan Buddhism first put down roots in the UK in the 60s, with the founding of Kagyu Samye Ling monastery in Scotland in 1967, and the tradition's mother tongue is still preferred by both western monastic and lay practitioners for recitation of prayers during these practices.

The Chinese authorities deemed problematic this encampment of adobe huts and tents filled with meditating monks, nuns and lay practitioners.

Homeopathy is a discipline practiced by people with a wide range of backgrounds, from medical doctors to self-trained lay practitioners.

She writes about the centers and lay practitioners who started them: Green Acre in Maine, the Vedanta Society in the Hollywood Hills and many others.

However, if a lay practitioner cannot at first assume these postures, they can be substituted initially by sitting on a chair with the spine straight, as it can bring about a similar effect.

But Leaf's also a certified yoga teacher, not simply a lay practitioner, and his ambitions for yoga are far more sweeping.

Once among the first American women ordained as a nun, she has since given back her vows to raise a family and integrate her spiritual values into a lay practitioner's life.

At its core lies practitioners' ability to reflect upon their own actions, continuously reviewing the processes and outcomes of treatments, defining new personal learning objectives, and planning future actions in pursuit of excellence [ 2- 5].

While doctors, the majority of whom were men, continued to be implicated in abortion offences following the Bourne ruling, it was ordinary lay women practitioners who were overwhelmingly tried and convicted as abortionists and were the target of the fiercest criticism and public vilification.