The monk who greeted them asked if they would like to view the temple's Buddha statue.
The Monk Institute's programs now include international outreach tours and an elite postgraduate program whose alumni include Mr. Stranahan.
The next morning, sufficiently refreshed for statue-contemplation, he found the monk and asked if they could see it now.
We all sat down to eat: the spirits, the sisters, the monk and me, the stranger who was maybe not a stranger.
UKIP's parliamentary candidate Jane Collins decided to cash in on her apparent support, and stood in the Monk Bretton ward.
The monk's lack of insistence the previous evening had been designed to avoid the rudeness of contradicting his visitors' preferences.
The monk was a caretaker at the Tiger's Lair, a sacred cave shrine perched high on the cliff-face of a granite mountain.
The monk is credited with being the "inventor" of the modern calendar.
The Holy Monastery of St Nicholas houses a single-nave church with a small dome, decorated by the 16th-century Cretan painter, Theophanes the Monk.
Galileo had taught the monk Castell, who had taught Borelli, who had taught the anatomist Malpighi, who had taught Valsalva, who had taught Morgagni, who had taught him.
Pico Iyer is the acclaimed author of many travel books, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul and, most recently, The Man Within My Head.
In the history of European clock technology, the monk is an early and very rare example of a self-acting automaton, one whose mechanism is wholly contained and hidden within its body.
The auction house's George Gordon said that the way the monk's head was turned to one side created an impression of spontaneity as opposed to the more formal composition of Rubens' portraits.
BBC: Portrait of a Carmelite Monk by Van Dyck, circa 1617 to 1620
The monk, who was born in the city of his name in northern Italy in 1631, was sent by the pope of the day to unite Christians in the face of a huge Ottoman army.
He also said the brushwork was clearly legible throughout - a trait of Van Dyck's when he was working in Rubens' studio - and that the use of thick paint in the monk's habit was also characteristic.
BBC: Portrait of a Carmelite Monk by Van Dyck, circa 1617 to 1620
Driven by a key-wound spring, the monk walks in a square, striking his chest with his right arm, raising and lowering a small wooden cross and rosary in his left hand, turning and nodding his head, rolling his eyes, and mouthing silent obsequies.
Vayenas is a graduate of the Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz, the highly acclaimed finishing school for young improvising musicians.
If you go deeper back in time, you meet the city's patron and founder, the warrior monk Colmcille or Saint Columba, who founded the missionary movement that helped bring Europe out of the Dark Ages.
These institutional presences didn't exist when the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz was founded 26 years ago.
Benjamin Williams is the 2009 winner of the Thelonious Monk Institute bass competition.
The presiding monk, Akmeemana Dayarathana, has founded another ultra-nationalist Buddhist group, Sinhala Echo.
Next up, the series would move back into the Gothic horror realm, with Batman confronting the bizarre death cult the Brotherhood in Gotham, led by the villainous Monk.
His commitment to nonviolence came through studying the Hindu leader Mahatma Gandhi, his opposition to the Vietnam War was motivated by meetings with the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh and some of his most profound conversations about faith and civil rights took place with a Rabbi, Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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One of them, the Hsuan Tsang Temple, houses the remains of the great itinerant monk Hsuan Tsang, immortalized in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.
He funded the fourth floor of Monk Bar, the city's 14th Century gateway, and a small museum dedicated to him can be found within its walls.
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The loss of captain Garry Monk in the warm-up to a calf injury turned out to be a blessing in disguise as Fede Bessone, his replacement, set up both Pratley's goals for Swansea's first derby league win in 10 years.
Kepler encouraged Galileo to announce publicly his agreement with the sun-centered cosmology of the Polish astronomer monk Copernik, better known to history by the far less euphonious, Latinized name of Copernicus.
The fatal stabbing of a Polish monk in the Tunisian capital on February 18th was ascribed by some to Islamist radicals.
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