Sentence examples for sacred monastery from inspiring English sources

The Lede chronicled the British royal wedding with, dare we say, regal care, and lest we be accused of paying scant attention to the three-day festivities that began Thursday in Punakha, a sacred monastery, let us now consider the wedding of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the 31-year-old Oxford-educated leader, and Jetsun Pema, 21, a commoner.

Happiness is where sacred monasteries sit precariously on sheer cliffs and the flutter of prayer flags lines high ridges and passes.

The Rumtek Monastery on the outskirts of the town is one of Buddhism's most sacred monasteries.

Up in the hills is Entoto, a serene, sacred spot with monasteries, churches and the palace of Emperor Menelik II, the 19th-century founder of Addis.

There are several museums, including one displaying sacred art in the monastery of Santa Tereza.

She also she visited Zagorsk, the site of the Trinity-Sergius monastery, a sacred place for Orthodox believers, and then went on to Georgia.

STOCKTON GOES TO THE BEACH 2003 SUMMER CONCERTS "Mystical Arts of Tibet," presented by Richard Gere Productions, featuring the lamas of the Drepung Loseling Monastery performing sacred dances, music, chants and prayers on July 11; on Wednesday, July 9 at the Atlantic City Arts Center at Garden Pier, the lamas will create a Sand Mandala or sacred sanding painting to promote world peace.

[1] As the name suggests, sanctuaries were often originally sacred places (churches or monasteries) beyond the reach of the (secular) authorities.

Because its art remains largely sacred, restricted to veneration within monasteries, it has remained almost unknown both in and outside Bhutan.

It was a wry allusion to an unspoken and potentially divisive asymmetry in the bells' significance: for Harvard, the bells were a curio or a fad; for the Danilov Monastery, they are a sacred patrimony.

"Yading is Shangri-la!" he exclaimed, saying he'd trekked into Sichuan province's remote Yading region, where he found a Tibetan monastery surrounded by three sacred mountains.