Sentence examples for resident monks from inspiring English sources

Many women whom Mr. Sasaki touched were resident monks at his centers.

"I think the heavens were teaching us a lesson," said Mr. Wang, 36, one of the monastery's resident monks.

The site became available because the resident monks were thinning in number and couldn't manage the upkeep.

The place has a closed-off feel, with a slow-placed existence that revolves around the major Tibetan monastery and its 60 or so resident monks.

But behind closed doors, many of the monastery's resident monks complain about intrusive government policies, invisible to tourists, that they say are strangling their culture and identity.

This is a reference to the time when the Norsemen invaded Padstow - bang went the neighbourhood - and the resident monks relocated themselves to this inland site.

The others were relatives of a resident monk.

I wished and I wished hard and then requested a blessing from the resident monk.

"If you didn't have television," one resident monk explained, "it would be so boring".

Last Thursday morning, at Rinzai-ji on Cimarron Street in Los Angeles, Bob Mammoser, a resident monk, said that Mr. Sasaki's "health is quite frail" and that he has "basically withdrawn from any active teaching".

And the Introduction to Zen program that Mr. Malkmus participated in at Zen Mountain currently attracts 35 to 40 guests most weekends, up 25percentt from 10 years ago, said Ryushin Osho, a resident monk.