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While the Dalai Lama accuses Chinese authorities of conducting a campaign of "patriotic re-education" in Tibetan Monasteries, and as China accuses the Dalai Lama of distorting facts and trafficking lies, can Nirvana and the Mandate of Heaven unify under a common banner?
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While the Dalai Lama accuses Chinese authorities of conducting a campaign of "patriotic re-education" in Tibetan Monasteries, and as China accuses the Dalai Lama of distorting facts and trafficking lies, can Nirvana and the Mandate of Heaven unify under a common banner?
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"Benedictine Oblation: A Study of the Rearing of Boys in Monasteries in the Early Middle Ages."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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They were the strongholds of Individualism, as the Monasteries were the strongholds of Papalism; and they were regarded with the same kind of awe and envy.
Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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Because while the Monasteries were a huge source of wealth, they could not be defended.
Gates of Vienna 2008
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Crack Palinggi/Xinhua/Zuma Press A worker cleaned a statue of Buddha in the Monasteries of the Dharma Bhakti to prepare for the celebration of the Chinese New Year in Jakarta.
Asia in Pictures 2012
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And they represent an English industry that thrived from about 1350 to 1530, after which the Protestant Reformation's ban on religious imagery, combined with the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England by King Henry VIII, not only ended the demand for such works but also led to their outright destruction.
Giving Physical Form to Faith Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012
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At Carnegie Hall, an invocation by monks from the Drepung Gomang Monasteries kicked off the evening.
Music and Meditation for Tibet Barbara Chai 2012
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He ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries and used the property to both replenish his coffers and as gifts to his nobles.
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Monasteries there are closely monitored by Chinese authorities and cannot practice their religion freely.
Tibetans Find Freedom in Exile Amy Yee 2010
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