Monastery
MONASTERY. [This entry discusses the architecture of Christian monasteries. For discussion of monasteries in Asian religions, see Temple, articles on Buddhist Temple Compounds, Daoist Temple...
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The Middle Ages (500-1400), especially the years between 500 and 1000 (known as the Dark Ages), was a stormy period in European history. Peace and order were in short supply after the fall of the Roma...
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Myanmar's military government on Monday put monasteries under close watch and cut off the cell phone service of known dissidents to clamp down on the most sustained anti-government protests in a de...
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Samuel A. Greene Jr., the founder of a monastery that closed amid scandal over the alleged sexual abuse of novice monks and a fraudulent weeping Virgin Mary painting, has died. He was 63.Greene's d...
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The monasteries of Myanmar used to teem with saffron-robed Buddhist monks, revered as spiritual guides and moral authorities in a country in the grip of a repressive military regime.Then the junta ...
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A Buddhist monastery that provided a hospice for AIDS patients has been closed down by the regime in Myanmar, which is also still arresting dissidents, the top U.S. diplomat in the country said Fri...
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A judge on Monday granted a reprieve to a sacred bull at a Hindu monastery threatened with slaughter because he is suspected of carrying bovine tuberculosis.The plight of the bull, named Shambo, ra...
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Remember quiet? It's that sound of not much at all, a fall breeze over a still pond, a car on a gravel road, frogs. Conception Abbey, which sits among the hills and farms of northwest Missouri, a f...
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Nicosia (dpa) - Two hundred Armenians returned to the abandoned
medieval monastery of Saint Magar in the Turkish-occupied northern
part of Cyprus Sunday, where prayers were ...
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Foguangshan, Taiwan (dpa) An unintelligible sing-song comes from
the hall. The voices only become clear when the main door to the
great hall opens, "Amitabha, Amitabh...
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As many as 200 monks were arrested early Thursday after Myanmar
junta authorities raided monasteries, witnesses said.
The reports said t...
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Monastery
Medieval Monastery
Myanmar junta watches monasteries
