Monastery, local community or residence of a religious order, particularly an order of monks.
Carthusian, member of Order of Carthusians (O.Cart)., an order of monks founded by St. Bruno of Cologne in 1084 in the valley of Chartreuse, north of Grenoble, Fr.
He was saved by a reclusive order of monks who recognized that his villainy was the result of an unhappy childhood.
In the opening scene he survives a lightning storm and is so grateful to God that he quits law school to join an Augustinian order of monks.
In a case in Morristown, one party might be said to have a special claim; it is the Benedictine Order of monks, who own St. Mary's Abbey.
THE teachings of an ancient order of monks are at the heart of "Xiaolin Showdown," an animated series that had its premiere last month as part of the Kids WB programming block on Channel 11.
Buddhism, however, is a religion based on a doctrine of transcendent merit and sustained by an order of monks who have, ultimately, no vested interest in kings and gods.
Thus in Khilnani's telling, the Buddha is revealed to have been resistant to allow women into his order of monks, commenting that in ancient India even "the Buddha was not entirely immune from patriarchal attitudes".
Or taken then rejected: after completing Catholic school in Philadelphia, where his father was a commercial artist and his youngest sister, the baby of the family, died at 3, he joined an order of monks.
He is on hand to cover the 1968 student revolt but finds that "taking the journalist's view of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of monks and spending the rest of your life in a glass monastery — removed from the world of human affairs even as it continued to whirl around you on all sides".
