Vegetarian cuisine prepared in Zen monasteries relied heavily on soy products, including miso soup and tofu.
In independent Tibet, monasteries and nunneries, numbering over 6,000, served as schools and universities, fulfilling Tibet's educational needs.
Soon the effects of the new teaching were widely felt, with monks and nuns leaving their monasteries and convents.
In some monasteries, religious work was defined as tending the soul by contemplating God.
In turn, this plan was copied and adopted in cloisters and monasteries throughout Europe.
The abbey was founded in 1132 and monks lived in it for 400 years until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.
Ever since the Concordat of 1516 between Francis I and Pope Leo X the king had appointed all bishops and the abbots of greater monasteries.
In addition, the land which the monasteries owned in the name of the Church, led bishops and abbots to have distinct political power as well.
These monasteries preserved the cultural riches of Greece and Rome, as well as the growing wisdom accumulated by the Church herself.
Dubrovnik contains wonderful monasteries with peaceful cloisters and fine artworks.
One of the primary causes of the great revival of European commerce in the twelfth century was the rise of Cistercian monasteries.
Then Red Guards destroyed hundreds of monasteries during the Cultural Revolution.
It is exhilarating to visit these monasteries, as also the Buddhist Museum which has Buddhist relics excavated from various parts of India.
It is unlikely that until the monasteries came any organised leechcraft even existed.
Europe had retrogressed almost to a primitive way of life, wherein learning was preserved largely in the monasteries.
When monasteries die out, the patriarch sells the property cheaply to pay his bills.
Griffiths thinks monasteries have the last, best chance at keeping this ancient tradition alive.
The nobles founded many monasteries and the archbishopric of Rouen was coterminous with the duchy.
A staff is also granted to archimandrites and abbots, as they are the heads of monasteries.
Much of this had been granted in the form of hereditary manorial estates to aristocratic families or important monasteries.
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Today, ashrams and monasteries of various Hindu sects keep the traditions of classical learning alive.
Shenouda subjected monasteries, long immune from episcopal control, to his papacy.
Under the Ottomans they lived in tekkes or lodges, which were similar in nature to monasteries, and lived off alms.
This, the oldest of Emei's monasteries, was badly damaged by fire in 1945 yet its most prized treasure survived unscathed.
There are also monasteries where monks and nuns practice a life of religious devotion and scholarship.
A limited form of mass production was able to be achieved in large scriptoria contained in monasteries.
The eighth century had seen the regional kingdoms and larger monasteries of Britain and Ireland became major landowners and economic powers.
The family estate was confiscated by Henry VIII from the Benedictines at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries.
The earliest monasteries in England were set up by the Benedictines, an order created by the sixth-century Italian monk St Benedict.
I have stayed in a couple of Benedictine monasteries and know how important hospitality and service to visitors is in monastic life.
After a papal bull of 1558 all such former monks were ordered to return to their monasteries, under threat of losing church benefices.
After the decline and fall of the Roman Empire it fell to the monasteries of Europe to preserve and pass on learning.
Many also come to visit ethereal Gothic cathedrals, millennial monasteries and imposing medieval castles en route.
I want to free the word contemplative from its captivity in Buddhist and Trappist monasteries and reclaim it for people like ourselves.
Thus early monasteries may be associated with cathedrals, colleges, and minsters.
He seems to have established a firm exploitation of monasteries and he misconducted himself with nuns.
Should monasteries be seen, in the second place, as contributing to the life of the wider church through evangelism and missionary work?
Meanwhile several monasteries were built in Kent, their churches closely modelled on Roman prototypes.
But the Reformation of the 1530s with its dissolution of monasteries, abbeys and chantries would have made the school redundant.
Until the dissolution of the monasteries, Oxford came within the diocese of Lincoln, with the chancellor appointed by the bishop.
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Members of the nobility who would insure the efficient use of church lands and wealth would henceforth manage monasteries and nunneries.
Alexander Cunningham along with Captain F.C.Maisey discovered this location that contained some important Buddhist stupas and monasteries.
At first, the Kushans attacked Buddhism but eventually they became great patrons, building many monasteries and stupas.
During the 500's, Saint Benedict of Nursia established monasteries where monks and nuns lived in separate communities.
Now, in this flurry of activity, I was e-mailing convents and monasteries like mad.
Abbots were the spiritual heads of the larger monasteries, with priors in charge of smaller or daughter houses.
From then on, generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries of up to three storeys.
We will also be offering an optional 3-day pre-trip excursion to Delphi and the hilltop monasteries of Meteora with accommodation on half board.
Tithes, destined for the upkeep of the parish clergy but often impropriated by monasteries or laymen, took around another 8 per cent on average.
Well today there wouldn't be 50 people entering novitiates or convents or monasteries probably around Australia I think.
The proliferation of vocations requires the building of novitiates, seminaries and monasteries.
Bishops' activities were confined to their own dioceses and monasteries exempted from episcopal interference.
The Vikings are often thought to have raided British monasteries and carried off treasure.
Feudalism was abolished along with the Inquisition and the Church's military orders, and two-thirds of monasteries and convents were dissolved.
Scholarship came from the Buddhist monks and their viharas, stupas and monasteries.
Male monasteries did not require dowries of their professed members and represented less of a threat to the family patrimony.
Not only did many monks die, but the ensuing shortage of labour deprived the monasteries of their unsalaried work-force, the lay brothers.
For mysticism is most often associated in both East and West with monasteries.
Buddhism suffered greatly from these raids, since its unfortified monasteries offered easy pickings.
Under his reforms, only monasteries and convents that were involved in teaching or charity work had a right to exist.
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One of the greatest accomplishments of the monasteries of the Carolingian era was the preservation of manuscripts.
It lost most of its monasteries and was not much of a prize when a Viking came to the King of the West Franks in 911 with a proposal.
Montenegrin medieval monasteries are decorated with thousands of square meters of frescos on their walls.
By the 13 th century the older Benedictine monasteries had to compete with new orders such as the Dominicans and Franciscans.
In enclosed places like monasteries, nunneries and prisons, the infection of one person usually meant the infection of all.
The number of parishes and monasteries has grown substantially with the restoration of religious freedom.
Amongst monasteries a priory was generally a smaller foundation than an abbey and was in many cases a monastery of monks subordinate to an abbey.
These monks and nuns live in their monasteries or nunneries all the rest of their lives, with no contact with the outside world.
Large monasteries were known as abbeys, whilst smaller ones were called priories and were often set up near an abbey.
A number of Anglo-Norman monasteries received Norman monks, not least in order to further the Conquest.
Others included walks from Iona to Holy Island, Canterbury to York, and around the monasteries, abbeys and priories of Yorkshire.
He was particularly concerned at the dispersal of many archives and books by the dissolution of the monasteries.
The dissolution of the monasteries strengthened the influence of the gentry and nobility and the shire became famous for its landed estates.
She had the misfortune to be married to that monster of self-indulgence Henry VIII, the desecrator of our monasteries.
Why are Germany's convents and monasteries marketing themselves as New Age spiritual retreats for paying customers?
In Scotland there were a dozen or so nunneries, mainly Cistercian, and in Ireland about ten of the 140 monasteries were nunneries, all of them for regular canonesses.
We hired a car and drove far away from the coastal tourist belt and up into the hills to the villages and monasteries in the Troodos Mountains to sample real Cypriot life.
Two-thirds of the lake is in Montenegro and the other third is in Albania, along with about 50 islands, some with ruined fortalices and monasteries.
Later, descendants of these selfsame clerics would carry their precious cargo to European monasteries where the Italian, the German and the Frenchman waited to be enlightened.
The medieval towns, monasteries, perfumeries, olive groves, flower farms and steep countryside into the alpine area provided the most magnificent scenery.
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The assault upon the English universities is so violent and philistine, it represents the academic equivalent of the dissolution of the monasteries.
The monks in those monasteries were the only historians around at that time.
Quite apart from the general role played by monastic orders in the history of wine, certain individual monks and monasteries enjoy vinous fame on their own account.
After a four-hour ramble on foot through deep gorges, past monasteries, and up steep, forested hillsides, we arrive in Chhulemu, Babu's home village.
These monasteries would be places where the primary purpose would be to search for the face of God, sharing in the redemptive work of Christ in prayer and penance.
Several key spots for viewing the lesser kestrel are at ancient monasteries built into cliffs along narrow dry streambeds that wind down to the Jordan River.
Eventually some of them would be used as sites for cathedrals and monasteries, but this seems to be more a matter of readoption than of any genuine continuity.
Until the twentieth century, the primary patrons of churches and monasteries were the aristocracy, the only group in society who possessed the means to sponsor such projects.
The monasteries became repositories of treasures which included paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, ivories, bronzes, reliquaries, precious stones, and textiles.
By the 9th century, most monasteries had writing rooms or scriptoria.
With the dissolution of monasteries in 1534 this craft passed from monasteries to farmers where it remained, for centuries, small-scale or artisanal.
In ten short years, several historic monasteries and convents have been restored to the Orthodox church and have welcomed hundreds of young novices.
The monasteries were to disappear like sugar dissolves in hot liquid.
The reestablishment of monasteries is proceeding at a rapid pace.
On this 13-day tour you'll see imperial eagles, Egyptian vultures and Dalmatian pelicans, plus frescoed monasteries, Roman ruins and the monuments of the Thracian horsemen.
He spent many years in Hindu monasteries in central India and established a ashram at Nanded in Maharashtra where he lived for fifteen years before meeting Guru Gobind Singh.
By the 15th century there are ample records of a thriving and developing musical life in Poland, not only in monasteries and bishoprics but also in the aristocratic courts.
For example, in medieval monasteries the abbot's rule was definitive.
Often these residences were donated to the Order by kings or wealthy patrons, and in due course they evolved into permanent institutions known as viharas or monasteries.
The martyrology is compiled in the form of a calendar with names to be read out each day by such communities as monasteries, convents and seminaries.
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The monasteries had been dissolved and the proceeds dissipated in war.
Undefended Buddhist monasteries, often containing valuable treasures, proved irresistible targets to raiders bent on booty in the name of holy war.
I picture the scarlet robes of Tibetan monks blowing in the cold wind, as they take cover in caves, behind rocks and in the towers of monasteries hundreds of years old.
Wine has always had spiritual and religious significance, and monks and monasteries have long been regarded as playing a crucial part in wine history.
He had an equally high-handed way with the monasteries in his diocese and in his filet year as bishop deposed no fewer than eleven abbots and priors.
At the Reformation, Henry VIII's suppression of the monasteries and collegiate churches meant that cathedral choirs and the Chapel Royal became the main musical centres.
There were mass closures of churches, mosques, and monasteries, and new taxes on religious facilities.
Whether they were to serve the purposes of missionaries, monks, or emperors these manuscripts were mostly produced in the scriptoria or cloisters of abbeys and monasteries.
Several early ecclesiastical centers and monasteries are also shown.
Don Fadrique's troops indiscriminately sacked homes, monasteries and churches.
A portion of the land belonged to monasteries and to the Stroganov merchants.
Later other orders arrived, founding monasteries but they did not evangelize the indigenous.
The important Benedictine monasteries both wrote chronicles and guarded other works in Old English.
This meant he was to visit and oversee each of eleven monasteries in his province.
During a tour of Thuringia, he became enraged at the widespread burning of convents, monasteries, bishops' palaces, and libraries.
He suggested the monasteries be changed into hospitals and welfare institutions and incorporate their wealth into a welfare fund.
Cistercian monasteries, in particular, made extensive use of water wheels to power watermills of many kinds.
Medieval Northampton had many churches, monasteries and the University of Northampton, which were all enclosed by the town walls.
The dissolution of the monasteries in 1538 led to further destruction of what remained of the medieval town.
At this time of year, the sangha would retreat to monasteries, public parks or forests, where people would come to them.
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Daniel has been credited with founding the first Moscow monasteries, dedicated to the Lord's Epiphany and to Saint Daniel.
Most of the surviving churches and monasteries were closed and then used as clubs, offices, factories or even warehouses.
From the end of the 15th century, the city was embellished by masonry structures such as monasteries, palaces, walls, towers, and churches.
The monasteries helped develop vast sheep farms and the founding of drove roads, which can still be seen and walked today.
The success of the monasteries was also responsible for the growth of the market towns of Grassington and Kettlewell.
When the monasteries were dissolved in 1539, and wool prices fell, many tenant farmers took to cattle and sheep rearing.
Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents.
Saint Meinrad is one of only two Benedictine monasteries in the United States to rise to rank of archabbey.
The owner rescued pieces from deserted monasteries to decorate the hotel.
There are 93 ethnic groups in Nepal, 103 spoken languages and dialects, over 3,000 temples and 1,200 monasteries and lamaseries.
While the process of creating an illuminated manuscript did not change, the move from monasteries to commercial settings was a radical step.
The practice of collecting recipes in antidotaries, probably composed in monasteries, goes back to the High Middle Ages.
It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries,... to exite popular indignation against them.
As with so many beer styles, we have monasteries to thank for doppelbock, in particular the devout monks of St. Francis of Paula.
Religious architecture includes extant cathedrals as well as the ruins of monasteries and abbeys.
Some monasteries, like the Cistercian abbey at Kinloss, opened their doors to a wider range of students.
In contrast, a network of monasteries had sprung up as monks sought separation from the world.
Education did ultimately continue, and was centered in the monasteries and cathedrals.
Private libraries would have existed, and monasteries would also keep various kinds of texts.
As opposed to the later church, the church of the early Middle Ages consisted primarily of the monasteries.
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The Historia Ecclesiastica has more to say about episcopal events than it does about the monasteries of England.
Multiple copies were made of that one original and then distributed to monasteries across England, where they were independently updated.
After the original Chronicle was compiled, copies were made and distributed to various monasteries.
From the 9th century, waves of Viking raiders plundered Irish monasteries and towns.
The available evidence is of a strong oral tradition, such as that preserved by bards in Ireland, and eventually recorded by monasteries.
Benedict set out his Monastic Rule, establishing a system of regulations for the foundation and running of monasteries.
Another new order were the Cistercians, whose large isolated monasteries spearheaded the settlement of former wilderness areas.
Beginning in 1536, the monasteries throughout England, Wales and Ireland were dissolved.
That Alfred sent alms to Irish and Continental monasteries may be taken on Asser's authority.
The monasteries at Ely and Glastonbury were apparently not on good terms either.
By 1096 no bishopric was held by any Englishman, and English abbots became uncommon, especially in the larger monasteries.
After the death of Becket, Henry built and endowed various monasteries in France, primarily to improve his popular image.
Many monks and nuns live in monasteries to stay away from the secular world.
Some monastics live in monasteries, while others wander from place to place, trusting in God alone to provide for their physical needs.
The great medieval English monasteries produced large surpluses of wool that were sold to mainland Europe.
Henry VIII shut the monasteries and their schools, and the overall level of schooling declined.
In 1542, England's remaining monasteries were all dissolved, and their property transferred to the Crown.
In 1539 he moved to the dissolution of the larger monasteries that had escaped earlier.
Many of the surviving manuscripts of the Latin classics were copied in monasteries in the Early Middle Ages.
Carolingian art was produced for a small group of figures around the court, and the monasteries and churches they supported.
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These double monasteries were presided over by abbesses, some of the most powerful and influential women in Europe.
Borrowing from Latin continued after the fall of the Roman Empire during Christianization, mediated by the church and monasteries.
Students would sometimes travel from faraway lands to enter the Irish monasteries.
Their tribal character is a feature which Irish and Welsh monasteries had in common.
Irish monks also founded monasteries across the continent, exerting influence greater than many more ancient continental centres.
The major monasteries were now wealthy in land and had political importance.
Early monasteries throughout Europe helped preserve Greek and Roman classical civilisation.
For the next nine years Wilfrid discharged his episcopal duties, founded monasteries, built churches, and improved the liturgy.
He ruled a large number of monasteries, and claimed to be the first Englishman to introduce the Rule of Saint Benedict into English monasteries.
While in Gaul, Wilfrid absorbed Frankish ecclesiastical practices, including some aspects from the monasteries founded by Columbanus.
Wilfrid would also have learned of the Rule of Saint Benedict in Gaul, as Columbanus' monasteries followed that monastic rule.
Wilfrid's monasteries in Mercia may date from this time, as King Wulfhere of Mercia gave him large grants of land in Mercia.
Wilfrid introduced the Rule of Saint Benedict into the monasteries he founded.
Wilfrid not only lost his diocese, he lost control of his monasteries as well.
Wilfrid's network of monasteries extended across at least three of the kingdoms of England in his day.
In his years of evangelism, Aidan was responsible for the construction of churches, monasteries and schools throughout Northumbria.
Some monastics live in monasteries, while others wander from place to place, depending on donated food and charity for their needs.
In addition to these precepts, Buddhist monasteries have hundreds of rules of dhamma conduct, which are a part of its patimokkha.
In recent history, sustained meditation has been pursued by a minority of monks in Buddhist monasteries.
The Vinaya Pitaka contains disciplinary rules for the Buddhist monasteries.
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The texts preserved in the Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, with parallel Chinese translations, have provided a breakthrough.
Many historians state that universities and cathedral schools were a continuation of the interest in learning promoted by monasteries.
By the end of the period the largest herds were probably those of monasteries.
Remaining pockets of resistance were overcome region by region, primarily due to the work of an expanding network of monasteries.
These monasteries were Benedictine except in the case of Carlisle, which was Augustinian.
She and her husband are commemorated as benefactors of other monasteries at Leominster, Chester, Much Wenlock, and Evesham.
With such production, medieval monasteries began to accumulate large libraries.
A stylistic similarity has been remarked between these double monasteries and those of the Copts of Egypt.
Irish missionaries founded monasteries outside Ireland, such as Iona Abbey, the Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland, and Bobbio Abbey in Italy.
Additionally, the learning and literacy found in monasteries served as useful tools for ambitious kings.
Literacy was not widespread, but among the senior clergy, and in monasteries, it would have been common enough.
Not only were such monasteries an expression of David's undoubted piety, but they also functioned to transform Scottish society.
Moreover, these new monasteries, and the Cistercian ones in particular, introduced new agricultural practices.
The closing of the monasteries in the 1530s increased poverty, as the church had helped the poor.
Apart from the icons, the Orthodox churches and monasteries are often decorated with frescos and mosaics.
Between 1536 and 1540, however, King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, thereby removing the seats of the abbots.
Through monasteries and cathedral schools, the Church was responsible for education in much of Europe.
David founded more than a dozen new monasteries in his reign, patronising various new monastic orders.
In the sixteenth century the Scottish Reformation ended the importance of all monasteries and abbeys in Scotland.
Its use spread through medieval monasteries, largely for medicinal purposes, such as the treatment of colic and smallpox.
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Between 1536 and 1541, King Henry VIII of England dissolved the monasteries, sending their monks out into the general public.
They also came to be used by a variety of corporate bodies, including cathedral chapters, municipalities, monasteries etc.
Gildas obeyed the king's summons and travelled all over the island, converting the inhabitants, building churches, and establishing monasteries.
Gildas is the patron saint of several churches and monasteries in Brittany, and his feast day is celebrated on 29 January.
Offa was a generous patron of the church, founding several churches and monasteries, often dedicated to St Peter.
The church was shortened after the dissolution of the monasteries and ruins of the former east end remain outside the church.
However, there may have been a short break following the Dissolution of the monasteries.
Education did ultimately continue, and was centred in the monasteries and cathedrals.
Larger monasteries often contained separate areas for the monks who specialized in the production of manuscripts called a scriptorium.
In the early Middle Ages, most books were produced in monasteries, whether for their own use, for presentation, or for a commission.
Large flocks of sheep were owned by Cistercian abbeys and monasteries, such as those at Strata Florida, Margam, Basingwerk and Tintern.
The Vikings pillaged monasteries on Ireland's west coast in 795 and then spread out to cover the rest of the coastline.
The Viking attackers sought to capture the treasures stored at monasteries, easy prey given the monks' lack of defensive capacity.
Hermitages on the islands became centres of communities which later became monasteries with massive estates.
As major landowners, the monasteries played a significant part in the early efforts at drainage of the Fens.
Many monasteries were established on islands, peninsulas, river mouths and cliffs.
Scholarly churchmen were brought into Normandy from the Rhineland, and they built and endowed monasteries and supported monastic schools.
He endowed Hagano with monasteries that were already the benefices of other barons, alienating them.
Many other important buildings existed, such as the monasteries of Centula or St Gall, or the old Cologne Cathedral, since rebuilt.
The increasingly wealthy Merovingian elite endowed many monasteries, including that of the Irish missionary Columbanus.
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They would raid monasteries for their wealth and lack of formidable defenders.
Columba studied under some of Ireland's most prominent church figures and founded several monasteries in the country.
In the Middle Ages the local monasteries began to excavate the peatlands as a turbary business, selling fuel to Norwich and Great Yarmouth.
This would have coincided with the controversial dissolution of the monasteries that resulted in a major influx of funds into the royal treasury.
As in the Byzantine Empire, the Roma were held as slaves of the state, of the boyars or of the monasteries.
The result was the establishment of numerous monasteries, which would become the nucleus of Old High German literacy in the Carolingian Empire.
Extensive parcels of land were donated to monasteries to exempt those lands from royal taxation and to preserve them within the family.
This pragmatic use of monasteries ensured close ties between elites and monastic properties.
Numerous Merovingians who served as bishops and abbots, or who generously funded abbeys and monasteries, were rewarded with sainthood.
The Vikings pillaged monasteries on Ireland's west coast in 795, and then spread out to cover the rest of the coastline.
The Rus' burned towns, churches, and monasteries, butchering the people and amassing booty.
Another notable formation are the Meteora rock pillars, atop which have been built medieval Greek Orthodox monasteries.
The Church founded many cathedrals, universities, monasteries and seminaries, some of which continue to exist today.
Notably, established Buddhist monasteries along the Silk Road offered a haven, as well as a new religion for foreigners.
Prior to the development of hospitals, people from the surrounding towns looked to the monasteries for help with their sick.
Herbal remedies, known as Herbals, along with prayer and other religious rituals were used in treatment by the monks and nuns of the monasteries.
Older herbal Latin texts were translated and also expanded in the monasteries.
Medicine in the monasteries was concentrated on assisting the individual to return to normal health.
The Wild Beggars pillaged churches and monasteries, cutting off the noses and ears of priests and monks.
By the early 11th century, the abbey was the hub of a huge Cluniac federation of monasteries that were all ultimately under the authority of the abbot of Cluny.
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Rinpoche, who lives in exile in India, has control over 100 monasteries in eastern part of the Tibet autonomous region and Tibetan areas in Sichuan.
DuBois says that under the Tokugawa shogunate, Buddhist monasteries acted as loyal agents of the state and served as the first line of defense against the rise of heresy.
Bahar Dar is a very pleasant city on the shores of Lake Tana, the largest lake in Ethiopia, famous for its many islands and seclusive orthodox monasteries.
The monasteries allowed the scriptorium to develop and the wonderful hand-painted Books of Hours, prayer books for the wealthy few, are still world treasures.
This man gathered together all the dispersed monks and other solitarians of Italy, so that in a short time he had no less than twelve monasteries about him.
The rules of the scriptorium varied in different monasteries, but artificial light was forbidden for fear of injury to the manuscripts, and silence was always enforced.
The new owners turned monks out of their monasteries and abbeys.
Frederick obliged by sending letters authorizing the closure of the monasteries, often offering a small sum of money to help the brothers on their way.
Since 1980, many Taoist monasteries and temples have been reopened or rebuilt, both belonging to the Zhengyi or Quanzhen schools, and clergy ordination has been resumed.
In the 19th century, the monasteries built in the high Alps during the medieval period to shelter travellers and as places of pilgrimage, became tourist destinations.
The Yajnavalkya text is also different from Manu text in adding chapters to the organization of monasteries, land grants, deeds execution and other matters.
A bishop may also call a sobor for his diocese, which again would have delegates from the clergy, monasteries and parishes of his diocese, to discuss important matters.
Ecclesiastical architecture raised early in Galicia, and the first churches and monasteries as San Pedro de Rocas, began to be built in 5th and 6th centuries.
Following the French Norman invasion into England, the explosion of French ideals led most Medieval monasteries to develop a hospitium or hospice for pilgrims.
Texts on herbal medicine were often copied in monasteries by monks but there is substantial evidence that these monks were also practicing the texts that they were copying.
Because monasteries were located in rural areas the infirmarian was also responsible for the care of lacerations, fractures, dislocations, and burns.
Research and experimental processes were continuously being implemented in monasteries to be able to successfully fulfill their duties to God to take care of all God's people.
In exchanging the herbal texts among monasteries, monks became aware of herbs that could be very useful but were not found in the surrounding area.
The Herbals that were being translated and modified in the monasteries were some of the first medical texts produced and used in medical practice in the Middle Ages.
An herbal textual tradition also developed in the medieval monasteries.
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As a result, merchants supported Buddhist monasteries along the Silk Road, and in return the Buddhists gave the merchants somewhere to stay as they traveled from city to city.
Although the monasteries retained 'serfs', these monastery dependents could actually own property and employ others to help them in their work, including their own slaves.
Buddhist monasteries were also engaged in the economy, since their land property and serfs gave them enough revenues to set up mills, oil presses, and other enterprises.
In 1285 the Drikung Kagyu sect revolted, attacking Sakya monasteries.
Up to the twelfth century, most manuscripts were produced in monasteries in order to add to the library or after receiving a commission from a wealthy patron.
The Umayyads looted the rich monasteries of northern Aquitaine before resuming their march towards Tours, a town said to be holding abundant wealth and treasures.
Extra sons and daughters who could not be married off were sent to monasteries so that they would not threaten the inheritance of older Merovingian children.
Evidently these monasteries were in West Saxon territory by then.
Flemming was supported in this effort with a shipment of lead to aid in construction, and money raised from the dissolution of the monasteries in England.
At the dissolution of the monasteries two monks were allowed to remain on the island, as they maintained a beacon for shipping in the river mouth.
Up to the 12th century, most manuscripts were produced in monasteries in order to add to the library or after receiving a commission from a wealthy patron.
Sheep do not seem to have been important to the Welsh economy before the 12th century, when the first Cistercian monasteries were established in Wales.
When the Priory and the Friary were abandoned during the dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII, the land being returned to the monarchy.
The monasteries were not dissolved, but allowed to die out with their monks and before 1573 no holders of benefices were turned out, even for refusing to conform.
Initially in 1537, the Irish Parliament approved both the Act of Supremacy, acknowledging Henry VIII as head of the Church and the dissolution of the monasteries.
Towns grew around monasteries and castles, and a mercantile middle class began to develop in these urban areas, especially in Flanders and later also Brabant.
The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of Arabia.
In Thailand and Laos, sculpture was mainly of Buddha images, often gilded, both large for temples and monasteries, and small figurines for private homes.
Dominican friars were sent around the world to establish their religious order and arrived in the UK in 1221 where they set about building monasteries and friaries.
Those who live in monasteries under a common rule are coenobitic.
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During this era, and through the 10th century, numerous cave monasteries and temples such as the Ajanta Caves, Badami cave temples and Ellora Caves were built in South Asia.
The practice of penance and the belief that good works could balance the punishment of sin or lead to salvation were particularly common among the monks living in monasteries.
Ratisbon is the city from which our voyager starts, and many are the legends which he has picked up of castles and monasteries, enough for six tragedies and sixty melodrames.
The Convent, built of raw concrete, was austere and without ornament, inspired by the medieval monasteries he had visited on his first trip to Italy.
During the English Reformation in the 16th century, most cathedral schools were closed and replaced by new foundations funded from the dissolution of the monasteries.
Buddhist text with vinaya rules for monasteries have been traced in all Buddhist traditions, with the oldest surviving being the ancient Chinese translations.
This, state Patrick Olivelle and other scholars, is likely because the monasteries of Advaita tradition of Hinduism had become well established in ancient times.
Some of the monasteries in his diocese were put under his protection by their abbots or abbesses, who were seeking someone to help protect their endowments.
His opponents in Northumbria excommunicated him, but the papacy upheld Wilfrid's side, and he regained possession of Ripon and Hexham, his Northumbrian monasteries.
During this period, monasteries and convents, such as those at Shaftesbury and Shrewsbury, were prominent features of society providing lodging, hospitals and education.
Over time, the Benedictine, continental rule engrafted upon the monasteries and parishes of England, drawing them closer to The Continent and Rome.
In 595 Gregory wrote to one of the papal estate managers in southern Gaul, asking that he buy English slave boys in order that they might be educated in monasteries.
At least in Ireland, the Monastic system became increasingly secularised from the 8th century, as close ties between ruling families and monasteries became apparent.
In ancient times, manuscripts were written on palm leaves, tree barks, parchment vellum and terracotta plates and preserved at monasteries known as viharas.
It was common for children to be fostered, either in other households or in monasteries, perhaps as a means of extending the circle of protection beyond the kin group.
In the late 11th and early 12th centuries cathedral schools spread throughout Western Europe, signalling the shift of learning from monasteries to cathedrals and towns.
A spate of building projects, such as castles, monasteries and churches, led to the improvement of rivers for the transportation of building materials.
Edgar triumphed, sending his uncle and brother to monasteries.
Suppression of monasteries to raise funds was not unknown previously.
Partly because of the new revenue raised from the dissolution of monasteries, Cromwell created revenue courts to allot the royal income properly to various departments.

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