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How to use monkhood in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word monkhood? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The same word is used for admission to the first level of Buddhist monkhood.
Because the state and the monkhood owned virtually all the productive land in Myanmar, there were no landed hereditary nobles who could weaken the power of the state.
His attempts to force the Buddhist monkhood and his subjects to accept his religious pretensions led to a rebellion organized by minor officials near the capital.
In those days people looked down on them, thinking that such Swamis were from a very poor family and that taking to monkhood was a way of earning a living.
Examples from Classical Literature
Though sometimes called a novice he is merely under 264 education, and not necessarily a candidate for the monkhood.
And therefore the monkhood, powerful as they were, left all politics alone.
I found, too, that a lofty idea prevails in Ceylon in regard to the status of the monkhood.
In the former I noticed a large central hall, in which the ceremony of admission to the monkhood takes place.
In regard to the gradations of the monkhood a more complete organization exists in Burma than in Ceylon.
Buddhist monkhood was purely voluntary, so that all were free to come and go.
It bids a man, if he strives after perfection, abandon the world and lead a life of monkhood.
It must be remembered that this is a thing aside from his monkhood.
Of the internal management of the monkhood I have but little to say.
And what is to be said of the present condition of the Buddhist monkhood?
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