Sentence examples for temple land from inspiring English sources

A dispute over ownership of the temple land has been dragging on for decades.

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In view of the magnitude of the establishment provided for the gods and the extent of lands belonging to them and cultivated for them partly by temple personnel, partly by members of the community holding temple land in some form of tenure it was unavoidable that temples should vie in economic importance with similar large private estates or with estates belonging to the crown.

Ultranationalist and royalist factions in Thailand accuse Thaksin of failing to defend Thai territorial interests due to his close relationship with Cambodia's Hun Sen. The royalist People's Alliance for Democracy said it didn't recognize the U.N. court's jurisdiction in resolving the temple land dispute.

All the 'old' pasyan seem to have made the pilgrimage— during which first and foremost the share croppers of the temple land transported the land rent in kind to the temple— for centuries.

This property is, as one of my interview partners emphasized, not classified as laba pura, as temple land, whose usufruct is usually destined for the maintenance of the temple and the performance of rituals but as druwe; druwe is a term mainly used for landed property owned by a ruling house.

Buddhist temple lands were confiscated and Buddhist ceremonies abolished in the imperial household.

Within the orders were priests in charge of ceremonies, of the education of novices, of astrology, and of the temple lands.

To the raja of Satara he restored a kingdom; to the great territorial magnates he returned lands, privileges, and judicial powers; and to the Brahmans he gave back temple lands and provided awards for learning.

In 1871, the government confiscated temple lands, considered symbolic of the ruling elite.

This similarity is reflected in the Egyptian term for the temple lands and their administration, pr, meaning "house" or "estate".