Sentence examples for monastic practice from inspiring English sources

Unlike other Buddhist traditions, such as the Chinese influenced traditions, Thai monastics actually do not generally put discipline and order at the forefront of monastic practice.

To reach this understanding was the goal of monastic practice.

The mindfulness retreats at Spirit Rock are modeled on monastic practice.

At Trattoria dell'Arte, a few days after the screening, Shadyac prefaced a lunch conversation by following the monastic practice of emptying his pockets of his possessions: a billfold wrapped in a black scrunchie, and a white scrunchie.

According to tradition, their leading teachers sought to reform lax monastic practice and participated in the conversion of Hindu Rajput clans in western India that subsequently became Shvetambara Jain caste groups.

The only schism to have a lasting effect concerned a dispute over proper monastic practice, with the Shvetambara ("White-Robed") sect arguing that monks and nuns should wear white robes and the Digambara ("Sky-Clad"; i.e., naked) sect claiming that a true monk (but not a nun) should be naked.

After observing monastic practices among hermits along the Jordan River, followed by sojourns in Egypt, the Sinai Desert, Cyprus, and Antioch, he spent time in Rome.

Its monastic practices included adult baptism by treble immersion, the wearing of Catholic-style monastic garb, Sabbatarianism, long days of work and prayer, a Spartan diet of one vegetarian meal a day and accommodation in tiny, sparsely furnished cells.

Home/Events/Paul Groner: "What Did It Mean to Be Ordained in Medieval Japanese Tendai?" Paul Groner: "What Did It Mean to Be Ordained in Medieval Japanese Tendai?" Japanese Tendai Buddhists are famous for not following traditional Buddhist monastic practices.

He made a fourth journey to Rome in 671 to receive instructions in monastic practices, and in 674 he built on land granted to him by King Ecgfrith of Northumbria the monastery of St. Peter at Wearmouth, where he introduced the Benedictine Rule.

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