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  • Englishe Tonge (in verse) _Emprented in the exempt Monastery of Taverstock, in Denshire, by me, Thomas Rycharde, Monke of the said Monastery_, 1525, 4to.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • Overseers of the 1500-year-old Shaolin Monastery in China's Henan province, where Buddhist practice and martial arts have long been one, are demanding a public apology from some internet dude who claimed online that a Japanese ninja once whupped the asses of the kung fu monks of Shaolin in a showdown.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • The Scarlet Monastery is populated by crazed fanatics, not monsters whose skin, claws and teeth can be used to make useful things.

    Crossfire killed Herod's fan club nathreee 2007

  • "the resemblance it bears to [The Monastery] is so very slight, that it is, in all probability, a close translation of the French opera" (14 October 1826).

    Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005

  • Additionally she has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Many of Chase’s poems are heavily influenced by her years as a Zen Buddhist student of John Daido Loori at Zen Mountain Monastery, and her poetry in the book The Snow Watcher shows it.

    chase twichell | soul in space « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

  • As explored earlier, perhaps the most pressing problem in the Monastery was the White Lady herself.

    Scott Repatriated?: La Dame blanche Crosses the Channel 2005

  • One of my favourite images is the Nilova Monastery aka Nilova Pustyn ( "the hermitage of Nil").

    Old Russian colour photos Ray Girvan 2004

  • One of my favourite images is the Nilova Monastery aka Nilova Pustyn ( "the hermitage of Nil").

    Archive 2004-01-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • She called her Monastery “Our Lady of Paradise,” and from her name and her Monastery, she would seem to have heeded the words of St. Paul, “Let your conversation be in heaven” – “seek the things that are above.”

    01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003 John 2003

  • Although Menri Monastery (sMan-ri dGon-pa) had been established in 1405 in the hope of continuing the Bon (Bon) debate tradition of Ensaka Monastery (dBen-sa-kha dGon-pa), this intention was not fulfilled.

    A Brief History of Yungdrungling Monastery 2003

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