Word: abbot
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...they peer through monsoon downpours with shotguns at the ready. One morning at the temple of Chang Hai Tok village in Pattani province, a batch of Iron Ladies, outfitted all in black, runs through military exercises. Surveying the training from behind a trio of Buddha statues, 60-year-old abbot Pracharoonkittisophano shrugs his shoulders when asked whether women twirling rifles, along with a shooting range behind his sleeping quarters, elicits any spiritual discomfort. "Guns are normal things in our world," he says. "I see them on TV all the time, and the types of guns used here are much safer...
...abbot didn't bother to lower his voice. Around us were sitting half a dozen local Buddhist worshippers, including one man whose aggressive curiosity about my presence made him a likely informant for the repressive Burmese junta. No matter, the abbot had no time for fear. "This is a very famous monastery," he said, as I, the first foreign visitor in many months, nodded. "Important people have come here: Nehru, Indira Gandhi and, of course, the Lady...
...what can the monks of Shwe Zedi do, besides point at words in a dictionary? I asked the abbot, who replied, "Pray." As I left Shwe Zedi, he handed me a tiny, ivory-hued bead. It was, the abbot said, a bone relic of the Buddha, or it symbolized as much. I thanked him for the lucky gift, but I couldn't help thinking that the monks of Burma needed the relic far more than...
...Kennifer’s classmate Lizzie Abbot wailed another shot past Indiana goaltender Cassie Wyckoff to bring Harvard to within one point of its stalling opponents with 44 seconds remaining on the clock...
Former University President Abbot Lawrence Lowell and Dean of the Faculty Clifford Herschel Moore founded the Harvard Faculty Club in 1931 “to provide a shelter where male members of the Faculty could meet for conversation, university business and find food, drink and comfortable beds,” according to the Faculty Club’s Web site...